Major League Baseball adds one domain name to its collection, but three still elude it.
DNJournal’s weekly domain name sales list includes Major League Baseball’s $375,000 purchase of Rangers.com, making it the 28th team name the league has acquired in .com.
I’ve been watching MLB’s team names for a while as they’ve slowly tried to complete their collection. As of 2013 they were missing just four domain names. At the time, I said Rangers.com probably wasn’t obtainable because the owner, Future Media Architects, doesn’t sell domain names.
But that changed last year. Future Media Architects started selling domain names, and MLB picked this domain name up right around the end of the year.
That leaves three team names MLB is missing:
Giants.com – you’ll find sports at Giants.com, but of the football variety. The domain is owned by the National Football League for the New York Giants.
Rays.com – Instead of baseball stats, fans are greeted with mouth watering dishes at Rays.com. It’s owned by Seattle restaurant Ray’s Boathouse, Inc.
Twins.com – D&D Miller in California owns the domain.
The latter two are obviously more obtainable than Giants.com.
Domainer Extraordinaire says
Now the other Dallas pro teams need Cowboys.com and Mavericks.com.
couponpages says
It’s funny when you think of it. There are two ways to see this.
Fans of the new TLDs would consider paying $375K for Rangers.Com a waste of money, because for that price, they could easily pay the ICANN application fee for .Baseball, then guarantee every team has a .Baseball domain, and still have plenty of cash left to print a boatload of “Rangers.Baseball” bumper stickers.
On the other hand, those who are not fans of the new TLDs will see this is proof that .Com is still the preferred TLD.
Andrew Allemann says
Major League Baseball applied for .mlb.
DR.DOMAIN says
I’m guessing all but Giants will be in the hands of their teams.
Congrats Rangers.Enjoy your proper dotcom…and 3rd or 4th place this year.GO HALOS!
Brad says
Who would want .baseball? Consumers type in .com, not .baseball.
Frank says
or .rangers
Simon says
I’m surprised it went that cheap
Andrew Allemann says
There’s really only one buyer that would pay that much, so there’s only so much leverage.
Frank says
He was being sarcastic