Reglikedomain industry desk

Gannett backs Thanksgiving.com publisher

USA Today owner invests in firm that is developing Thanksgiving.com domain name.

Publisher Gannett Co., Inc, which owns USA Today, has invested in Grateful Ventures. The investment will be used in part to accelerate development of Thanksgiving.com, which it hopes to make a destination for holiday cooking.

Grateful Ventures describes itself as “an online media and publishing coalition, focusing on building content and monetization strategies for high value domains”. It uses the domain Grateful.ventures.

Thanksgiving.com was owned by Digimedia. In 2014 the Whois record switched to privacy.

Digimedia president Jay Chapman tweeted regarding the investment earlier today:

Gannett & GV plan to make https://t.co/YjzwF6sh76 "top destination for all holiday-related food & cooking content" https://t.co/pFgzlmlHsv

— Jay Chapman (@Jay_Chapman) October 9, 2017

I have reached out to Jay to see if Digimedia is still involved with the domain name.

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