Tag Archives: markmonitor

Wed 10th February 2016
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SalesForce Buys The Domain Quotable.com Through BrandBucket.com - Salesforce has just bought the domain name Quotable.com through BrandBucket.com According to DomainTools.com the owner of the domain name was Baroda Ventures LLC of Beverly Hills, who seemed to own the domain for many years. The live whois records changed yesterday to reflect that SalesForce.com bought the domain name which is now registered through brand protection company and domain name registrar MarkMonitor.com. The domain Quotable.com is already being forwarded to SalesForce.com. It seems the ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2016
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US Bank New Ad Campaign Around "The Power Of Possible"; .Com Owned T StatOil.com - According to MediaPost.com “U.S. Bank has launched its most extensive brand-building campaign to date around the phrase,  “The Power of Possible” including TV, radio and newspaper ads, as well as social media engagement and other digital pieces. The domain name ThePowerofPossible.com is owned by another big company StatOil.com, which is represented by CSC. “Statoil is an international energy company present in more than 30 countries around the world” The domain name does not resolve so ... read more ...
Fri 1st January 2016
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Google Finally Acquires Alphabetinc.com - Google finally acquired a domain name you thought it would have gotten well before its run on buying  Alphabet domains, Alphabetinc.com. As we have been reporting Google since launching abc.xyz as the website for its holding company Alphabet, Inc has been acquiring all letter of the Alphabet they could get and now owns 20 of the possible 26 (actually 25 domains since a.com is reserved by IANA/ICANN). As we known Alphabet.com is owned by BMW which still has shown no indication it is willing to sell ... read more ...
Sun 27th December 2015
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Google Buys More "Letter" .Com's: Now owns 19 of Them; Maybe usually 6 Left - Google bought several more “letter”.com’s yesterday picking up abcdefghijkl.com abcdefghijklm.com abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy.com All registered in 2004. Since turning the domain world on its head buying abc.xyz Google now owns: ABCDEFGHI.COM ABCDEFGHIJ.COM ABCDEFGHIJK.COM ABCDEFGHIJKL.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLM.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.COM Google ... read more ...
Mon 21st December 2015
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Google Adds abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com to the Collection Of Alphabet Domains - Google has just added another “Alphabet” domain name to its collection buying the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com. The domain name was most recently  owned by the The Giardino Law Firm, Inc of San Antonio and by a domainer in Tennessee before that. The domain has an original creation date of 2003. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its Corporate parent Alphabet. Google acquired the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com as part of its Alphabet ... read more ...
Thu 17th December 2015
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Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com - Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original creation date of 2004. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its Corporate parent Alphabet. Google acquired the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com as part of its Alphabet domain name strategy. Google now owns: ABCDEFGHI.COM ABCDEFGHIJ.COM ABCDEFGHIJK.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.COM The ... read more ...
Thu 10th December 2015
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Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com - Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also serves as the stat program for WordPress sites like TheDomains.com Automattic.com has been using the domain name Jetpack.me for the service, but yesterday the whois records updated and the domain names is now registered by Mark Monitor with WordPress name servers. It appears that the domain name that was formerly owned by Jetpack Design of ... read more ...
Tue 1st December 2015
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Is Amazon.com Getting into The Ticket Biz? Checkout These 3 New Domain Registrations - Amazon.com registered three very interesting domain names yesterday that may indicate a new business for the company. Amazon registered the domain names AmazonConcerts.com AmazonConcertTickets.com and AmazonTheaterTickets.com yesterday through the brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMonitor.com. This might indicate that Amazon might be getting into the ticket business to maybe take on Ticketmaster.com and/or StubHub.com Interestingly the domain name AmazonSportsTickets.com is ... read more ...
Mon 16th November 2015
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Drug Giant Merck Buys DogFlu.com: Had a BIN Price of $19K - The drug giant Merck just bought the domain name DogFlu.com. The domain name was listed in Afternic.com with a Buy It Now price of $19,000. The domain was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration according to the whois as recently as May 2015, when it switched over to privacy in August. The domain had an Estibot.com appraised value of $16,000. There is an outbreak of Dog Flu in the United States which started getting reported on in June of this year. The CDC has a website dedicated to the ... read more ...
Sun 25th October 2015
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Looks Like Sony Is Planning On A Sequel To Bad Teacher: "Another Bad Teacher" Based on Domains - It Looks like Sony Is planning on A Sequel to the 2011 hit Bad Teacher  that starred Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. According to Wikipedia.org, Bad Teacher had a box office of over $216 Million Yesterday Sony registered several domain names that seem to indicate a sequel is in the works at brand protection company MarkMonitor.com: anotherbadteacher.com anotherbadteacher.net anotherbadteachermovie.com anotherbadteachermovie.net anotherbadteacherthemovie.com anotherbadteacherthemovie.net imdb.com,  ... read more ...
Sat 29th August 2015
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Google Buys ABCAlphabet.com, Alphabet.kr: Domain Costs Are Mounting - Google Inc. continues it’s onslaught of buying and registering domain names relating to its announcement on August 10, 2015 of it’s  new holding company, Alphabet Inc. So much talk has been behind the ABC.xyz domain acquisition, yet Alphabet Inc. has been on a domain buying spree every since buying many other domain names related to “ABC” and “Alphabet”. I’m not sure how much Google has spent on acquiring all the versions of “ABC” or Alphabet” domains it has but it has to be ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2015
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Thomson Reuters Acquires Premium Domain Name TR.com - According to whois records, MarkMonitor’s parent company, Thomson Reuters has acquired the premium two letter domain name TR.com from Wolters Kluwer US. Wolters Kluwer has owned TR.com since August 2005 and was using the domain name for Telecommunications Reports under the business name CCH Incorporated. Thomson Reuters Corporation is a major multinational mass media and information firm founded in Toronto and based in New York City and Toronto according to Wikipedia. Thomson Reuters is a publicly ... read more ...
Thu 6th February 2014
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MarkMonitor allegedly hacked by Syrian Electronic Army - Group claims to hack leading brand management registrar and change Facebook’s whois, but Registry Lock thwarts its attempt to hijack Facebook.com nameservers. The Syrian Electronic Army claims it has hacked into the systems of MarkMonitor, the domain name registrar for many of the world’s biggest brands. It has a screenshot to prove it, too: A twitter account purporting to be that of the SEA also posted a link to a Facebook.com whois record showing the the Syrian ... read more ...
Mon 1st October 2012
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Amazon’s Quidsi lauches Vine.com for healthy products - Quidsi’s latest generic domain store: Vine.com. I’ve scooped a number of Quidsi store openings based on generic domains they’ve bought — from Afterschool.com to Casa.com. But I missed this one: Quidsi just launched Vine.com, a store with “natural products for green living”. George Kirikos points out that the company appears to have acquired the domain name through Mark Monitor over the past few weeks. It was previously owned by a company called Vine Technology. It’s ... read more ...
Mon 23rd May 2011
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MarkMonitor: Brandjacking Costs Top Hotels $2B+ a Year - Majority of estimated “losses” are from keyword search engine bidding. MarkMonitor just released a “Brandjacking” report (pdf) about online hotel bookings, estimating that large hotel brands lose over $2 billion a year in lost bookings and unnecessary commissions. The bulk of these losses are from competitors and travel agencies bidding on hotel brand names in search ads. Also included in the report is a study of cybersquatting of 5 top hotel brands. MarkMonitor ... read more ...
Tue 2nd September 2008
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Google Chrome Domain Names - Google remained tight-lipped about its new browser. So who registered GoogleChrome.com a month ago? By now you’ve probably read that Google is releasing a web browser called Google Chrome. Perhaps you’re feeling the same way I am: great, one more browser to optimize for. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) did a good job keeping the lid on its browser announcement. There have been rumors of a Google browser for many years, in part because the domain name GBrowser.com was ... read more ...