Reglikedomain industry desk

Buys her husband’s name and 28 more interesting domain purchases — Rachael Ray

29 end user domain sales counting some big names.

Memo to Rachael Ray’s husband: she owns you.

This stretch’s end user domain sales note includes Rachael Ray buying her husband’s (domain) name, Hubspot, Taser, and more.

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Better Bathrooms UK Limited paid $3,388 for BetterLights.com.

Animal Finders, a fresh service designed to help connect lost animals with their owners, bought PetsReunited.com for $1,600. It operates in the UK at AnimalFinders.co.uk; I wonder if they tried to buy the .com of that name and found PetsReunited.com to be cheaper.

Online marketing firm Hubspot bought FaceSpot.com for $2,800. For Facebook marketing tools? If so, it ought to be wary of Facebook, which likes to claim trademark infringement on such domains.

Smoothie bar operated Booster Juice owns BoosterJuice.com, but wisely bought JuiceBooster.com for $1,977.

Furniture firm HomeLife shelled out $14,500 for GardenBenches.com.

TASER International zapped TaserTube.com for $1,795. (Sorry, I couldn’t help it.)

Expressions of Time, a clock store that owns ClockShoppes.com, smartly purchased ClockShops.com for $5,500.

Sony Pictures bought MoreThanMovies.com for $1,188.

QMI SAI Canada Ltd, which does quality control and ISO certification, bought SAIDirect.com for $1,488.

The house trimming/molding firm that owns HomeTrimwork.com shortened its web address to Trimwork.com for $2,600.

Millennium Dental Technologies paid $1,552 for FightGumDisease.com

Event production firm All Phases Event Group shortened its URL from AllPhasesEG.com to Allphases.com for $4,500.

Automated Voice Data Solutions owns AVDS.com and bought AVDS.net for $1,988.

Retina Institute in California bought CaliforniaClinics.com for $1,195 and CaliforniaClinic.com for $2,888.

Here’s an interesting one. Rachael Ray’s parent firm Watch Entertainment bought her husband’s name JohnCusimano.com for $4,077.

Blue Diamond Consulting and Training bought BlueDiamondConsulting.com for $1,195.

Sedo.com

The owners of TalkLive.com (which appears to be affiliated with National A-1) bought TalkLive.co.uk for $1,000.

Cambria Consulting Limited in the UK bought Cambria.co.uk for 999 GBP.

Quintessential Finance Group paid 3,000 GBP for PensionReview.co.uk.

NEWDOM Limited, the same firm that bought BitCoin.us for $17,500 the prior week, returned to buy Bitcoin.be for 1,500 EUR.

The owner of g2Play.net upgraded to g2Play.com for $800.

Rock memorabilia site WolfgangsVault.com paid $50,000 for Wolfgangs.com.

Upscale store Marka VIP bought KidsVIP.com for $1,600.

PC Pitstop, which runs a site offering computer scans and cleaning, bought PCMinder.com for $800.

MailChimp picked up MailMonkey.com for $11,000. It recently bought MonkeyMail.com for $10,500.

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. bought Kindred.info for 775 EUR.

App firm Echoboom Apps bought Echoboom.com for $4,500. It forwards it to is existing web address, Echoboom.se.

The owner of GameTop.com, a site for free online, PC, and Android games, bought TopApps.com for $25,000. That’s a great domain.

Also on the wire

Other reporting from the domain desk.