Reglikedomain industry desk

ENom completes BulkRegistrar buyout

eNom has completed its purchase of BulkRegistrar, making it the world’s second largest registrar.

eNom’s buyout of BulkRegistrar comes following eNom itself was purchased by Demand Media earlier this year. Demand Media is a recently formed domain buyout firm headed by a former MySpace founder. It competes with the like of iREIT, Internet Real Estate Group, and BuyDomains.

Following the buyout eNom has 6.8M domains under management. The buyout gives eNom access to a number of corproate clients that use BulkRegistrar’s portfolio management tools. BulkRegistrar has an exclusive expiring domain contract with SnapNames…it will be interested to see if eNom tries to cancel this contract so it can offer the domains through its own ClubDrop. Contracts frequently have cancellation provisions in the event of an buyout.

Now, if eNom can just shake these allegations of aiding a terrorist organization 🙂

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