Tag Archives: villa.com

Thu 15th May 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Booking.com launches Villas.com to contest in vacation let market - Site launches after company goes on domain name buying spree. Travel booking company Booking.com has launched Villas.com to offer vacation rental properties. This answers the question I’ve been asking for almost a year: who has been registering dozens of country code domain names for villa and villas? I first noticed the “villa” registrations in July 2013 when a (then) mystery company got villa.me, villa.am, villa.sh and villas.biz. Since that time I’ve noticed ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Villa.com changes registrars as partial of Villa landgrab - Who’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 purchased/registered with Mark Monitor. All of them have Mark Monitor’s version of Whois privacy “DNStinations”. Now the final shoe has dropped: Villa.com has moved from Whois privacy at Fabulous to Whois privacy at Mark Monitor. Was ... read more ...