Google launched these "heads-up display" type glasses under the project name, "Project Glass".. well who gives two shits about the glasses (I’m sure they are way off from market, reality, etc. otherwise they look cool), what did they do domain wise?

They offered up this video to show off the glasses in action (i’m sure a TON of editing went into the video)

At the end of the video, like a TV commercial.. the destination domain to "learn more" is displayed as…. G.co/projectglass

G.co is used as a URL shortner by Google. (Update: based on some stats I am seeing, many people are typing "g.com/projectglass" trying to find the project page, clearly a BIG problem for .co domain owners that do not own the matching .com of what .co domain they are using.)

The shortened URL leads to https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts which is the Google Plus page for the project.

ProjectGlass.com (even though a code name) is owned by HugeDomains.com and is for sale currently at time of posting for $1,195

ProjectGlasses.com just was on auction (March 25) at Auction.GoDaddy.com and did not get any bids. The domain is currently in redemption period. Why did I include this domain? Because they are GLASSES and I actually typed g.co/projectglasses and ended up on a 404 page at Google. If I did this, others will as well.

GoogleGlasses.com was registered almost 1 year ago on 4/25/2011 at GoDaddy.com and is registered out until 2021. Not something that you see very often (10 yr registration), but the whois is privacy protected. The domain was registered prior to 2011 but it expired and was removed from the registry in 2011. I wouldn’t expect Google to own this or they would likely have forwarded the domain to the plus page.

IMO, if these do hit market at some point, the common sense term to relate to them will likely be "Google Glasses". They could come up with a fancy name for them but we shall see. At this point, it doesn’t look like they cared to cover any bases domain wise with project glass.

Based on whois records, the domain name 999.com has been sold via Sedo.com. I haven’t seen a published purchase price but if it was a public sale, I would expect it to be published by Sedo. The domain name is still in the transfer process so the new owner is not currently known. The average NNN.com domain names have been selling mainly in the $1x,xxx to $2x,xxx price range according to NameBio.com to give you an idea. Since this one is a repeating number and only 10 of those exist in the NNN category, it sticks out more than your normal NNN.com. Hard to say what it sold for at this point.

Polygon.com is another generic domain name that appears to have been sold according to whois records. I stumbled upon this one in my daily diggings of domain names. This one you likely would have not known sold, as it likely sold between two private parties.

Pregnancy.org is another generic domain name that sold. This one actually sold back in March 2011 and the buyers according to whois records is a company called Alere.

Popular.com purchased the domain name PopularOne.com. (I own PopularPerson.com, but they have not contacted me with interest if you were wondering)

QualityIsKey.com was purchased by Allergan Inc. from BuyDomains. The domain was listed for $2,088

Constant Contact Inc. purchased the domain name CardStar.com from NameAdvisors.com or with the help of NameAdvisors.com. Like the second.

Sorry I wasn’t able to provide prices with the above (unless stated) but when you dig deep, sometimes you just happen to discover things nobody else would and that also means nobody else is talking about it. In the end, I have tried contacting new domain buyers countless times and 9 times out of ten they either do not reply or say they can not share the sales price… so I rarely contact the new buyers.

I read Domaining.com almost daily and get pretty tired of reading the same shit on different sites, so I’m always glad to see when DotWeekly writes an article, because its unique!!!! Well, at least that is what I hope you think!

Anyway, I do a lot of daily digging of domain names and I do not always write about everything that I see, but I thought I would share some things so you don’t get bored with all the repeat content provided by a lot of sites.

Generic domain names on the move, is just that! Based on some digging, here are some generic domain names that are changing things up:

Symantec has owned the domain name Van.com for sometime now (several years) but on or about October 7, 2010 they parked the domain name with Sedo. I know, pretty crazy.. but maybe they just wanted to test drive the market and see if anybody wanted to buy the domain?

Well, they have changed things up and now Van.com is being redirected to http://www.symantec.com/connect/ . I’m not sure what Van.com has to do with connecting and Symantec, other than an asset for the company… but that is what Van.com does now.

Guthy-Renker LLC is a company you may or may not have heard of but they are a direct response company with popular products like Proactiv®, which is an acne product endorsed by celebs. Well, Guthy-Renker also happens to own the generic domain name Acne.com. They have in the past used Acne.com to help promote Proactiv, but they appear to be changing things up a little with the site now. It almost has a "blog" look to it, but I happened to notice a banner ad in the right sidebar promoting Xout.com. Xout.com actually sold recently for $55,000 and was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc.

Xout.com and Acne.com DNS changed the same day.

So, Guthy-Renker is using the generic, category killer domain name Acne.com to help promote its brands, but not directly. Lets hope Acne.com doesn’t stay in its current form because I think the site can do a lot better!

Netflix is trying to put its "Qwikster" naming mess behind them and have just purchased the generic domain name DVD.com . Hat tip to Andrew of DNW.com for seeing this one and a kick in the nuts to me for missing it yesterday when I should have seen the change.

Google has finally revealed they were the buyers of the generic domain name Wallet.com, a story I broke from when I started noticing some changes with it. Wallet.com currently forwards to http://www.google.com/wallet/#utm_source=RE&utm_medium=dom-wal

That was just a taste for now but I will likely be doing these a little bit more down the road if you like them.