Bob Parsons, best known as the founder of GoDaddy.com, has reemerged as as the King of Harley Davidson dealerships, announcing the acquisition of Southern Thunder Harley-Davidson in Southaven, Mississippi by his company YAM Worldwide. Southern Thunder is Parsons’ first acquisition outside of Arizona. The deal also includes two popular alternative retail outlets, Graceland Harley-Davidson … [Read more...]
FinanceIt.ca Raises $13 Million & Looks To Expand Into US Market
According to a press release out today FinanceIt, has raised a $13 million Series A financing. The company owns the domain name Financeit.ca "which is today a Canada-only play". The domain name Financeit.com is owned by a US company evenmoney.com The press release goes on to say that they money will help the company expand to the United States, starting in 2014. I guess they are going … [Read more...]
LoveRoom Gets Some Love By Business Insiders But The Real Winner Is Thought Convergence Owner Of LoveRoom.com
Businessinsider.com just covered the launch of Love Room, The startup boasts that it's "a platform where single people from all around the world can rent their living space to others under one condition: they need to be attractive." Only one problem for Love Room that I see right out of the box. They don't own LoveRoom.com They have been are running off a subdomain of LaunchRock.com … [Read more...]
True Category Killer Hits The Market, Fashion.com But Why Is Schilling Brokering Not Buying It?
We get press releases about domain names for sale almost every day but this one really caught our eye. The domain name is Fashion.com Its a huge vertical, certainly a top 100 generic .com domain name and certainly worth into the eight figures According to the press release the domain is being brokered jointly by DomainNameSales.com and igloo.com. DomainNameSales of course was founded … [Read more...]
New Pizza Chain Spends a Whole $500 To Secure Its Brand, YourPie.com
This is a new pizza chain starting to gain some momentum has now added South Florida to its locations. Your Pie which started in 2008 the same year the domain name YourPie.com was acquired the domain at a Godaddy.com auction for a whopping $500, which is now the name for the pizza chain which is busy franchising … [Read more...]
YourEDM.com “World’s Largest Electronic Dance Music News Site Acquires Rights To EDM.com”
According to a press release out this afternoon YourEDM.com the world's largest electronic dance music (EDM) news site, The EDM Network. announced it acquired the rights to the domain EDM.com EDM.com was owned by a Jason Muir back in February of this year and is now owned under privacy. However the domain was owned by a Bruning Engineering, Inc in 2012. The company now owns these domain names: … [Read more...]
Will Quorvus Become The New Hotel Brand For Carlson Hotels (Radisson, ParkPlaza, Country Inns)
Carlson Hotels which operates several hotel chains like Radisson Blu Radisson Park Plaza Park Inn by Radisson Country Inns & Suites By Carlson Hotel Missoni Look like its getting to roll out another new Hotel group known as Quorvus According to some new registrations at brand protection company MarkMonitor.com it looks like Carlson is going to call a new line of hotels … [Read more...]