Reglikedomain industry desk

(or Places for Sale) Do.com — Microsoft Sells

Domain name transfers to IP protection firm.

An old Microsoft domain name has changed hands.

The whois record for Do.com changed yesterday from Microsoft to Glendale, California firm Marksmen.

Marksmen is an intellectual property firm that often helps firms acquire domain names. But it also owns NameQuiver, a domain name brokerage that sells domains on behalf of other firms.

NameQuiver was the seller broker for the now complete $2.6 million Social.com sale. That domain was sold through a Moniker auction to an as-yet-unnamed buyer.

If Microsoft were just using Marksmen as a broker the domain probably would have remained in Microsoft’s name, so my verdict here is that the domain has sold.

Do.com was originally registered in 1995. Lately it merely forwarded to a Bing query for “do”, which is common for Microsoft’s unused domain names.

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