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 DotWeekly: Mega credit card company Visa® secretly acquired the single letter domain name V.me from the registry (likely through the .me Development Program) around October 2011 but whois records remained behind the generic DnStinations Inc. which is used by brand protection company MarkMonitor. Late yesterday, Visa figured it was time to …

 DotWeekly: Google chopped the "Android Market" name and has officially launched "Google Play". You can read more about the name change on Google’s Official Blog but we are here to talk about domains! First, Google does NOT currently own the domain name GooglePlay.com . According to whois records, Kristoffer Kullengren of J…

 DotWeekly: Google has been putting focus on getting businesses online and is using a lot of domain names to help in its effort. The latest is GYBO.com, a domain name they recently acquired from its past owner for an undisclosed amount. Back around July 2011, Google Inc. started buying domain names related to "Get Online" and

 DotWeekly: Moniker is sending one of its own into the domain name auction pool and is giving a shot to others to own the domain name Others.com! The Others.com auction will start tomorrow, so if you want in on the action, I’d suggest placing your backorder today. Why would Moniker be offering Others.com for sale? Hard

 DotWeekly: Google registers a lot of domain names and it seems like they use "some" of them overtime and others not at all. Google isn’t one to just buy a domain for fun though and often times they go big when they buy. With that in mind, why did they register GoogleShowy.com on 2/27/2012? They do

 DotWeekly: First the Costa Concordia cruise ship sinks after is ran a ground. Then the Costa Allegra catches fire in the engine room and the cruise ship lost power in the Indian Ocean and is now being towed in. So what does the Costa Cruise line do when they have a ship at sea with over

 DotWeekly: Here is a How To article on how to obtain the full list of domain names on auction at GoDaddy Auctions® GoDaddy lists its domain names via FTP but you can access the lists on the web without using an FTP program. Step 1 Visit: ftp://ftp.godaddy.com (You can also access the files directly on the

 DotWeekly: Here is a graphic that will catch your eye! Sedo.com is reporting via its domain name sales RSS feed that the two letter domain name JP.com has been sold for $1,100 USD? What? The domain names whois data has not changed since June 16, 2011 when it changed to JP.com & Co, so even though

 DotWeekly: Danica Patrick is sponsored by the largest domain name registrar in the world, GoDaddy.com. So I wanted to see if "domains" were a perk of the sponsorship? The easy answer is not likely but it may appear some guidance likely happens from time to time. Here are some domain names that I was able to

 DotWeekly: Based on a small study I did yesterday using .com domain names that were released from the registry (PendingDelete 2/20/2012) and registered from the time of the drop, until about 6PM. 51,326 .com domains dropped 4,190 domains were reregistered 954 by HugeDomains Nearly 1/4 of the domains were registered by one company! HugeDomains.c…