Buying up villa and villas domain names — Someone is

Pay attention if you get an offer to buy a domain with “villa” in it.

If someone contacts you regarding buying your villa.tld or villas.tld domain name, you might want to do some digging.

A Mark Monitor client appears to be on a quest to buy up some of these domains.

On July 6 the firm’s “privacy” service DNStinations became the owner of Villa.me.

The firm also recently hand registered villa.am and villa.sh.

It also purchased the domain name Villas.biz (plural).

It doesn’t look like Villa.com or Villas.com have changed hands recently. Both have whois privacy, but I suspect they’re owned by the same firm as they’re at the same registrar, both are parked at Bodis, and the historical whois points to the same domain investor.

Donuts has applied for the top level domain .villas.

It will be interesting to see who is behind the recent acquisitions.