Reglikedomain industry desk

Buys TheDaily.com and The-Daily.com Domain Names — Rupert Murdoch

Domain name purchases come in advance of fresh make-for-tablet newspaper.

Earlier today news hit the web that News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch is working on a fresh iNewspaper called “The Daily”. The Daily will be designed for tablets such as the iPad.

This caught one Reglike reader off guard, as he recalls previously visiting TheDaily.com from ASSIST Information Services. As it turns out, ASSIST sold the domain name to Murdoch’s firm a while back (it looks like this happened last year) and changed its web address to TheDailyHomepages.com.

More recently, Murdoch bought The-Daily.com from BuyDomains in August of this year.

Both TheDaily.com and The-Daily.com are listed as owned by DNStinations, a stealth domain name buyout firm, but show dowjones.com as their nameservers.

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