Registrant name will need to be updated after Serlin departs. About 35,000 domain names at MarkMonitor use the company's version of Whois Proxy. They are all registered in the name of Matt Serlin, DNStination Inc. Names registered in this name ... Continue Reading16 Comments
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End user domain name sales including a .MX and .Bet
· Domain SalesHere are end user domain name sales that recently took place. Sedo completed 481 domain name transactions for a total of $1 million last week. The top reported sale--Kredit.com for €46,000--is still in escrow, so we don't know the buyer yet. But the ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Tesla finally acquires Tesla.com domain name
· Domain SalesTesla.com now forwards to TeslaMotors.com. Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has finally acquired the Tesla.com domain name. It is now forwarding Tesla.com to TeslaMotors.com. The domain name was registered in 1992, well before the company was formed. The ... Continue Reading6 Comments
17 end user sales including a .XYZ domain name
· Domain SalesSedo sold $1.1 million of domain names last week, including these end user sales. Sedo handled a higher-than-usual 647 domain name transactions last week totaling $1.1 million. 56% -- slightly hire than usual -- were "buy now" sales. Among the end ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Is Amazon.com the biggest user of new domain names?
· UncategorizedAmazon has registered a bunch of domains under new TLDs, and it's forwarding them to pages on its website. It's still unclear what Amazon.com's strategy is for the many top level domain names it will soon control. But we might get a hint from examining ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Taylor Swift registers ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToGiveHead.com (no joke)
· UncategorizedDomain name registered at MarkMonitor today after guitar teacher domain name makes the news. New York Daily News reported yesterday about Taylor Swift going after her former guitar teacher, who registered the domain name ITaughtTaylorSwift.com. Her ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Companies don’t want you to use Whois privacy, but they use it themselves
· Policy & LawBrands owners benefit from whois privacy, even though they'd prefer their adversaries not be able to use it. There's a common myth in intellectual property circles that, if it weren't for whois privacy and proxy services, there would be a lot less bad ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Villa.com changes registrars as part of Villa landgrab
· Domain SalesWho's behind this Villa landgrab? Last year I wrote about how someone was buying up lots of country code domain names with villa and villas at the second level. Since then I've continued to watch dozens of similar domain names get ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Someone is buying up villa and villas domain names
· Domain SalesPay 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 ... Continue Reading18 Comments
Ernst & Young finds out that brand protection is easier in .US
· UncategorizedCompany doesn't have to pay to protect domains with the S word. I got a chuckle out of a few domain names that had a registrant change last week. The three domains were all previously registered to Ernst & ... Continue Reading1 Comment