.com Domain Sales: Fire.com, Blue.com, Tablet.com, Social.con, + More

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Fire Financial Services has acquired the premium generic domain name Fire.com! They are using the domain name PayWithFire.com currently, so clearly this is a big time domain name / brand upgrade for them.

Amazon should have considered acquiring this domain due to its many lines of products holding the fire branding, Fire TV, Fire Tablets etc. Now the term is more competitive and the option removed to help secure the brand.

Salesforce acquired the premium generic domain name Tablet.com dating back to around November 2011 via Escrow.com and bounced around in and out of whois privacy over the years and has finally transferred into brand protection service MarkMonitor. The domains redirect to Salesforce.com. Social.com, also owned by Salesforce moved a bit and changed DNS also, but still redirects to the same location as prior. Not to be outdone, Site.com also did a little DNS update and transferred into MarkMonitor as well. Salesforce has owned Site.com since around 2012....

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