Valley National Bancorp is a publicly traded financial institution (VLY on the New York Stock Exchange) with a market capitalization of nearly $4 Billion. The company operates Valley National Bank, a consumer facing bank that uses the three word ValleyNationalBank.com domain name for its website. Based on current Whois records, the bank appears to have recently acquired the high value Valley.com domain name.
After seeing the registrant information change to Valley National Bank on the Valley.com Whois records (courtesy of the Domain Monitor Alert tool from DomainTools), I visited the domain name to see if the bank is using it yet. The domain name is not yet being used by the bank, and I was forwarded to an offer form hosted on the Lumis Domain Brokerage website. In looking through my email records, I see that Lumis was brokering the sale of Valley.com. When I had inquired about the price in January of this year, I was told it would cost “mid six figures.”
I reached out to Hobi Michalec and Slade Michalec, co-owners of Lumis, to see if they could confirm that their company brokered the deal. I also asked if they could share the purchase price, assuming their company brokered the sale of the domain name. Hobi confirmed the company brokered the domain name on behalf of the seller. The acquisition price is unable to be shared though.
Valley.com is a great acquisition for Valley National Bank. It shortens the url for clients, making it less likely for typographical errors or phishing/cybersquatting attempts using misspellings. The only possible comparable domain name for the company would be VNB.com, but that domain name is owned by Virginia National Bank and most likely would not be available to purchase.
Great name indeed, congrats! 🙂
There are peaks and valleys in domaining, and this valley is definitely a peak. (LOL)
Not bad…
These guys deal in some good names. I believe they were also part of the $2,000,000 Freedom.com deal with Ali Zandi.
CryptoValley is taken. WalletValley is not; they have to deal with me 🙂
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I’m interested in knowing how rathead’s comment was allowed through and why it’s still there?
Elliot why are you allowing racist comments on your website from rathead above: “even if they’r just marketing to the coloreds in the hood” ?????? I mentioned this yesterday and you ignored it and my comment was unpublished. ????????
I didn’t notice the comment until I saw your comment, but now that I did, it has been removed. That type of comment is offensive and inappropriate.
Your two comments were blocked by the Akismet plugin and I didn’t see them until a minute ago. If you ever notice anything like that again, please email me ASAP – especially if they do not show up.