The domain name Census.com which was in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon in January 2015, just sold to a Mark Monitor client as the whois information changed yesterday.
The domain name Census.com was one of my favorite picks from that auction.
The domain name had a auction reserve of between $100,001 – $250,000
It will be interesting to see who wound up buying this domain.
Census.com as a parked page has an Alexa ranking in the 5 million range.
In a just 5 weeks RightoftheDot.com will be holding another live auction from Namescon and you can see from the pre-bidding on Namejet.com, there are a lot of great domain names.
Strong name. Doesn’t need to be used for a literal census either. Anything related to counting would be a great fit. Big data, tracking, analytics – those areas spring to mind. Not that the name is limited to just those fields …
Nice name indeed.
I know it’s OT, but it looks Adam (Dicker) sold his DCG.com.
Hangzhou Midaizi Network Co., the owner of 4.cn, seems the buyer.
Domain Name: DCG.COM
Registry Domain ID: 937148_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namespro.ca
Registrar URL:
Updated Date: 2015-12-04T05:52:16Z
Creation Date: 1995-04-10T04:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2022-02-01T11:59:59Z
Registrar: Namespro Solutions INC.
Registrar IANA ID: 1895
Domain Status: OK https://icann.org/epp#OK
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Caijun Xu
Registrant Organization: Hangzhou Midaizi Network Co.,
Registrant Street: A13-2, East E-Commerce Park, No.9 Jiusheng
Registrant City: Hangzhou
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code: 310019
Registrant Country: CN
Registrant Phone: +86.57156638598
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Caijun Xu
Admin Organization: Hangzhou Midaizi Network Co.,
Admin Street: A13-2, East E-Commerce Park, No.9 Jiusheng
Admin City: Hangzhou
Admin State/Province:
Admin Postal Code: 310019
Admin Country: CN
Admin Phone: +86.57156638598
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email:
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Caijun Xu
Tech Organization: Hangzhou Midaizi Network Co.,
Tech Street: A13-2, East E-Commerce Park, No.9 Jiusheng
Tech City: Hangzhou
Tech State/Province:
Tech Postal Code: 310019
Tech Country: CN
Tech Phone: +86.57156638598
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email:
Name Server: ns6121.hostgator.com
Name Server: ns6122.hostgator.com
DNSSEC:Unsigned
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
Census.org makes more sense to me.
Census.com fails the radio test for the average American who does not spell well.
Many years ago I sold census.co.uk to a corporate registrar. Buyer ultimately turned out to be Office of National Statistics here in the UK which was no great surprise at the time. It appeared the only highly likely end user. I have yet to see them resolve the domain name to anything, even as a redirect to their .gov.uk. We have a census here every decade.
http://www.nominet.uk/whois/?query=census.co.uk#whois-results