Several very nice "cloud" related domain names have expired lately that are registered at GoDaddy and have went to GoDaddy.com Auctions with one of those domains being CloudServers.com which was purchased for $32,010. Whois data has changed after the 5-7 day waiting period after the auction ended but doesn’t clearly indicate that Salesforce was the [...]

Google Inc. secretly registered two domain names on 2/29/2012, FiveInTheCloud.com and 5InTheCloud.com with domain registrar MarkMonitor. Fast forward to 3/23/2012 and Google has launched a website on the domains! (5InTheCloud.com actually resolves to a 404 page, which is pretty funny considering! Failed redirect is my guess to FiveInTheCloud.com) These type of domains are not common [...]

Back in September 2011 I had broke the news that Box.net had purchased the domain name Box.com . At the time I wasn’t able to dig up a sales price, but now a cNet.com article posted today has revealed the price, kind of!  The money talk from the cNet article: "How many zeros?" I asked. [...]