Bob’s Discount Furniture is a home furniture chain with stores throughout the United States. The company started in New England, and it has a pretty big presence in the northeast US. Smartly, Bob’s (as it is more commonly known around here), appears to have upgraded to Bobs.com, which is currently forwarding to MyBobs.com. I would not be surprised to see the company opt to move its website to Bobs.com in the future though.

For quite some time, Bobs.com had been owned by a band called The Bobs. A recent screenshot on Screenshots.com shows a notice stating that the band is no longer touring or doing live shows. I made an offer to buy the domain name in October of 2017, and I was told they had recently declined a better offer at the recommendation of a domain broker. Out of respect for the former domain name and the privacy of our conversation, I will not reveal the offer they told me they declined.

I recently checked back in on the domain name and noticed it was forwarding

I was doing some domain name research today when I came across the Almond.com domain name and website. I want to share a story from a year ago that I seem to have missed about how the Almond.com website came into being with the help of almond centric brand, Silk (Silk.com – nice).

When you visit Almond.com, you can see a picture of Gary Almond. You can also have a look at Screenshots.com to see how Almond.com looked before the site was launched. Below the headline, you can click see a reference to two articles that discuss the domain name and how Silk helped Gary Almond launch his website. There’s a promoted article on Mashable as well as an article on AdWeek discussing Silk’s involvement with Almond.com.

Have a look at the embedded video below to get an idea of what happened:

In 2014, the Teamwork.com domain name sold for €500,000. The sale, which is recorded at $675,000 because of the exchange rate, is listed as the 14th largest sale of the year in DNJournal’s sale report for 2014. Teamwork.com is a great domain name, and the $675,000 USD price tag seems like a fair deal for both parties.

According to an article in the Irish Times, the buyer of the domain name, a company called Teamwork, is very happy with its acquisition. In fact, buying Teamwork.com was cited as one of the two most pivotal moments for the young company so far. Here’s the interview question and answer shared by the founders of the company in the Irish Times article:

“What moment/deal would you cite as the game-changer or turning point for the company?

It’s a coin toss between two events. The first is when we used every penny we had to acquire the domain name Teamwork.com for €500,000. It was a huge gamble but it paid off quickly.

The second event that stands out as a growth catalyst was the day we received a phone call from Disney. They told us they had been using Teamwork Projects for a while in stealth and they loved it. They wanted an enterprise version with extra security features. We delivered and the Disney account helped us build out our enterprise offering.”

The interview was done with Teamwork

AT&T and Time Warner are merging, and the result is a rebranding of Time Warner. According to NBCNews.com, Time Warner will be rebranded as Warner Media:

“WarnerMedia is the new name for Time Warner, according to an internal memo from the AT&T executive who is taking charge of the media company, John Stankey.

The telecom firm said that customer confusion with Time Warner Cable, long since spun off from the company, was the reason for the change.”

From what I can see, it looks like this rebranding effort is being made without the matching WarnerMedia.com domain name. Instead, the company is using WarnerMediaGroup.com for its website.

Whois records for WarnerMedia.com, which are redacted due to GDPR, show the domain name was created in December of 1998. Using DomainTools’ Whois History tool, I can see that the domain name has been registered to a Pennsylvania entity called WarnerMedia since at least 2001 (the oldest historical record at DomainTools). From what I can see, Warner is the last name of the registrant contact.

It appears the domain name could be available for sale if the rebranded company would like to buy it. On the WarnerMedia.com landing page, there is a message that says, “The warnermedia.com domain is available for license or purchase. Select offers will be considered.” Here’s how the landing page currently looks:

IHOP sort of went viral last week when they announced they would be rebranding as IHOB. IHOP stands for International House of Pancakes, and the company teased the IHOB rebranding a bit, promising to make the big reveal about the “B” today. Well, the company announced that the B apparently stands for Burgers and the chain is now known as International House of Burgers:

Dear Internet, we abbreciate your batience. Now let’s see who guessed right. B-hold!!!!! #IHOb pic.twitter.com/Fh3SkZ7s3Y

— IHOb (@IHOb) June 11, 2018

I’m not really an IHOP person, but I guess if I was in the mood for some fast(ish) food pancakes and eggs, that would be the place I would probably type into Google Maps to find (no Waffle House around here). I don’t really understand the