According to whois records, Verisign Inc. has purchased the domain name BetweenTheDots.com!
This comes on the heels of two newer companies launching by different companies:
LeftOfTheDot.com
RightOfTheDot.com (Michael Berkins and Monte Cahn)
The domain name BetweenTheDots.com has actually had several owners in 2011 already:
Global Billboards has owned it since at least from 2007 and into the early part of 2011. In late August 2011 the domain switched to "domain admin" with a nycny.net email address. My guess is that was a domain broker/buyer.. because the same email address was used when Johnson & Johnson purchased EES.com in May 2011. In early September the domain then switched to Melbourne IT DBS (but stayed registered with GoDaddy) and now the domain shows Verisign as the owners.
Why it would move from a broker… to Melbourne IT DBS and then Verisign without the domain transferring registrars, I’m not sure but I think it is now with the real buyer!
What will Verisign do with the domain? With all the new gTLD’s coming out, It sure would appear to be a domain name to use in advertising IMO, but you never know what they may have wanted it for. The domain currently does resolve, so we will have to wait and see. I did see one cached article that had BetweenTheDots.com priced at $3,800 USD but I can not confirm that was the price paid for it.
Verisign is the registry for .com, .net, .tv, .name, .cc and .jobs currently.
BetweenTheDot.com (not plural) is currently available to register.. but that also doesn’t make sense! It may get a little bit of traffic depending on what Verisign does with BetweenTheDots.com! I thought about picking it up but money is tight around here.
John
Between the dots? What brings to mind is this:
www. .com
Right of the dot:
.com
Left of the dot:
www.
If they were all to sponsor the same show at the same time and you saw their advertising, it’ll be like “meet my brothers Darryl, Darryl and Darryl” with different color shirts on.
lol, that would be pretty funny.
John Lyotier
I guess what they say is true: imitation is the greatest source of flattery.
John,
Co-Founder at Left of the Dot (est. June 2010)