JulienJ
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Animoji.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client. The domain name moved into whois privacy in late October 2017 at GoDaddy and has since transferred into MarkMonitor. Animoji is an animated emoji used on the iPhone X with Apple owning the Animoji trademark, once owned by Emonster KK which was filed on September 12, 2017. There was a TM owned by Emonster Inc. that was filed in 2014 that has since been canceled. Apple filed its own TMfor Animoji on November 6, 2017. Emonster sued Apple due to its 2014 TM, and since the September 12, 2017 TM is now owned by Apple, I’d have to assume that Apple purchased the TM.
Apple is mainly a CSC Corporate Domains client, so it’s not clear cut that Apple were the buyers of Animoji.com but Apple does have a couple hundred domain names at MarkMonitor, with most being all new gTLD’s but a handful of .com domains.
If I had to guess, Apple Inc. were the likely buyers of the Animoji.com domain, which has been registered since July 15, 2013.
Island.com which was owned by The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. has transferred ownership to Finlead AG according to whois records and transferred out of MarkMonitor to Uniregistry. The Nasdaq Stock Market owns about 1,000 domain name assets and based on DomainIQ.com data, island.com was one of the top 4 most valuable domains owned by the company. Nasdaq.com, NPM.com and Shareholder.com are the others with > $100,000 estibot appraisals, with island.com coming in at an estimated $569,393. Island.com has been registered since June 1, 1994. Nasdaq took ownership of the domain name from Instinet, Inc. which it acquired in 2005.
FlexWheels vehicle subscription service has acquired FlexMotors.com with the transaction taking place via Sedo.
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Apple is mainly a CSC Corporate Domains client, so it’s not clear cut that Apple were the buyers of Animoji.com but Apple does have a couple hundred domain names at MarkMonitor, with most being all new gTLD’s but a handful of .com domains.
If I had to guess, Apple Inc. were the likely buyers of the Animoji.com domain, which has been registered since July 15, 2013.
Island.com which was owned by The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. has transferred ownership to Finlead AG according to whois records and transferred out of MarkMonitor to Uniregistry. The Nasdaq Stock Market owns about 1,000 domain name assets and based on DomainIQ.com data, island.com was one of the top 4 most valuable domains owned by the company. Nasdaq.com, NPM.com and Shareholder.com are the others with > $100,000 estibot appraisals, with island.com coming in at an estimated $569,393. Island.com has been registered since June 1, 1994. Nasdaq took ownership of the domain name from Instinet, Inc. which it acquired in 2005.
FlexWheels vehicle subscription service has acquired FlexMotors.com with the transaction taking place via Sedo.
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