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After co-brokering sale of Social.com for $2.6 million, Marksmen acquires the domain name socl.com

Marksmen, the IP and brand protection company, who made headlines in June after co-brokering the sale of social.com for $2.6 million, appears to have just acquired a related domain for one of its clients. Whois records for the short four-letter domain name, socl.com, switched from YummyNames (by Tucows) to Marksmen this week. Registrant:  Domain Admin  PO Box 10038 […]

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Top 10 Stories of 2011: #5 Salesforce revealed as $2.6MM social.com buyer

The biggest domain sale of 2011, with a price tag of $2.6 million, was social.com.  The domain sold in June and was co-brokered by Marksmen’s Cyntia King and Moniker.com’s John Mauriello. As to who purchased the domain name remained a mystery, that is until I broke the story that the buyer was none other than Salesforce.com, […]

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Salesforce’s Do.com moves into Private Beta, app almost ready for prime time

Salesforce’s latest product Do.com, a business productivity application whose slogan is “Do and it’s Done”, has come out of alpha and moved into private beta.  According to the Beta sign up page, which popped up online this week, Do.com is near release and invitations are being sent out as fast as possible. No public information has been made […]

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Salesforce.com is the mystery buyer of $2.6 million Social.com [UPDATED]

Salesforce.com appears to be the buyer who paid $2.6 million in late June 2011 for social.com, this year’s top selling domain to date, that has been publicly reported. The buyer in the social.com sale, which was co-brokered by Marksmen’s Cyntia King and Moniker.com’s John Mauriello, was never revealed.  The purchase set off speculation about the new owner ranging from Twitter to Living […]

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Salesforce to launch yet to be revealed Do.com, get things done with anyone

Salesforce.com has been announcing a number of new products recently, but one product that it hasn’t publicly announced as of yet, is a productivity app called “do” which can be found on the website Do.com. The slogan on the homepage reads: “The app to get things done with anyone” The Coming Soon page went live today.  […]