Pay attention if you get an offer to buy a domain with “villa” in it.
If someone contacts you about buying your villa.tld or villas.tld domain name, you might want to do some digging.
A Mark Monitor client appears to be on a quest to buy up some of these domains.
On July 6 the company’s “privacy” service DNStinations became the owner of Villa.me.
The company also recently hand registered villa.am and villa.sh.
It also acquired the domain name Villas.biz (plural).
It doesn’t look like Villa.com or Villas.com have changed hands recently. Both have whois privacy, but I suspect they’re owned by the same company as they’re at the same registrar, both are parked at Bodis, and the historical whois points to the same domain investor.
Donuts has applied for the top level domain .villas.
It will be interesting to see who is behind the recent acquisitions.
Anticareer.com says
.villas …. waste of money.
Maxwell Arnold says
Perhaps it’s some sort of VILLAin 😀
(sorry, I had to)
Unknown says
Why are you out to inflate the price. It would have been better if you just face your business and we face ours also.
Juan says
It looks like somebody (MarkMonitor) bought villas.com.ar on July 2.
steve says
Interesting. Someone hit me up for Villas dot cc a few weeks ago. I think they offered 1k.
Samit says
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
We own Villament(s).com / .in – it’s what companies use locally to signify a hybrid between villas and apartments. Think of townhouses… in a gated community.
With the shortage of space, maybe that’s what people will have going forward instead of bungalows / homes.
DNabc says
This will be something interesting to follow as I have quite a few good villa names.
DR.DOMAIN says
No villa names here…but a coupla’ lofts.
rob sequin says
Hmmm. Interesting but my villas are not for sale.
cubavillas.com
havanavilla.com
havanavillas.com
Andrew Allemann says
The same person just picked up:
villa.co.za
villa.sc
DNabc says
Will this turn to be some worlwide “brand” on such generic word?
Andrew Allemann says
More registrations:
villa.co.ck
villa.pu
villas.pu
villas.pn
Andrew Allemann says
villa.za.com also registered
Andrew Allemann says
More:
villa.com.ng
villa.com.ru
villa.mn
villas.com.ng
Andrew Allemann says
+ villa.cc
Domo Sapiens says
booking.com
the culprit:)
Andrew Allemann says
I heard that from someone else. Do you have any proof you can send me?
Andrew Allemann says
Here’s the buyer:
https://domainnamewire.com/2014/05/15/booking-villas/