UnoEuro Announces Rebrand to Simply.com

Michael Bilde from Embrand shared a blog post with me from a hosting company based in Denmark called UnoEuro. In the March 9th blog post (written in Danish), the company announced that it was rebranding as Simply.com. In fact, if you type in UnoEuro.com, you will be redirected to Simply.com. The move was designed to make it easier for customers to remember and type-in the company’s brand name.

Here’s a translated excerpt from the blog post covering the reason for rebranding UnoEuro to Simply.com, courtesy of Google Translate:

Video: Amanda Waltz Discusses Domain Acquisitions

Over the last several years, I have noticed several high profile domain name acquisitions and was able to learn with a level of confidence that Amanda Waltz was the buyer’s domain broker. It usually happens when I detect a domain name has changed hands and track it back to a person or entity I know has done business with Amanda in the past. Much more often than not, Amanda wouldn’t confirm her involvement or share any details, but my intuition says she has been involved in many large domain name acquisitions.

Amanda and Jeffrey Gabriel recently founded and launched Saw.com, a domain name brokerage that works on behalf of domain name buyers and sellers. For instance, Saw.com is now brokering domain names on behalf of Future Media Architects.

Earlier this morning, Saw.com shared a video of Amanda discussing domain name acquisitions. It’s worth a watch to understand why companies utilize a domain broker to acquire a domain name and how domain name buyer brokers work on behalf of clients to acquire domain names:

Benefytt Technologies Inc. Talks About HealthInsurance.com

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Over the weekend, George Kirikos tweeted about a major domain name acquisition that was reported in a SEC filing. Benefytt Technologies Inc., a company that until March 6, 2020 was called Health Insurance Innovations, reported a domain name acquisition in the amount of $8,133,000 in 2019. Unfortunately, the domain name that was reportedly acquired was not specifically identified by the company.

George tweeted about the domain name acquisition report and his belief that the domain name that was acquired was HealthInsurance.com:

Phenom.com Acquired by Phenom People Amid Rebrand

Domain broker James Booth has been operating his domain brokerage under the Phenom.com branding since mid-2019. About a month ago, I noticed that Phenom.com had begun forwarding to DomainBooth.com, and I privately learned that the domain name had been sold. At the time, I did not know who acquired the domain name, but I can now report that a HR company called Phenom People made the six figure acquisition.

IBM Acquires Brand Match Acoustic.com Domain Name

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In my morning Name Server Alert email from DomainTools, I saw the valuable Acoustic.com domain name had changed hands. Acoustic.com is now registered to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Although the domain name does not resolve to a website at the time of publication, I am sure the domain name will be used by the business currently operating on Acoustic.CO.

The launch of Acoustic was announced in a press release in June of 2019. Acoustic was a rebrand and independent launch of IBM’s Watson Marketing. Here’s an excerpt from the press release describing what Acoustic is:

IGTV.com Acquired by Instagram

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In my DomainTools Registrant Monitor alert email this morning, I saw that IGTV.com has been acquired by Instagram. The domain name was appears to have been previously registered to an entity in California, and it had been parked using Sedo’s nameservers. Instagram is often referred to as “IG,” so the domain name acquisition makes sense. As of the time of publication, IGTV.com does not resolve to an operational website.