09|01|2010 2:28 pm EDT
Breaking: Buyers of DomainName.com Registrar Revealed

Richard Kirkendall and Richard Lau photographed by Kamila Sekiewicz at DOMAINfest 2010
As DNN has learned the buyers of the DomainName.com registrar and customer base sold by DomainConsultant, are non other than Richard Lau of DomainManager.com and Richard Kirkendall of NameCheap.com. The two, also known as “The Richards” partnered up on the purchase and are planning to transform the company into a new brand.
Richard Kirkendall told DNN about the purchase: “We’re excited about the acquisition of DomainName.com and plan to launch a premium registrar geared towards domainers and business. It will operate as separate brand from Namecheap. With all the features: dns, whois privacy, webhosting, SSL at extremely competitive pricing.”
According to information provided by the company NameCheap now has 1,5 million names under management for their clients. DomainManager provides free DNS for over 53,000 domains according to Zone File records.
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18 Comments
Frank Michlick
September 1, 2010 @ 2:28 pm EDT
Maybe they bought it because it uses a word from each of their main sites? ;-)
Kevin Murphy
September 1, 2010 @ 2:51 pm EDT
“The Richards”?
Better than the alternative, I suppose.
Andy Booth
September 1, 2010 @ 3:25 pm EDT
That made me laugh Kevin, funny.
Andy Booth
September 1, 2010 @ 3:25 pm EDT
And this is a great buy for the two (R)icks… Nicely done fellows! Lau, whatever next man!?
Batfan
September 1, 2010 @ 3:37 pm EDT
Any word on the final purchase price?
Andy Booth
September 1, 2010 @ 3:42 pm EDT
I think that is going to be kept confidential. Whatever, these guys will make this domain name pay back, no doubt.
Francois
September 1, 2010 @ 3:49 pm EDT
Congrats boys!
I am really happy to read the domain has been purchased by these two nice persons.
French domain name forum
September 1, 2010 @ 4:48 pm EDT
Congrats Rick, great domain obviously :)
Brian Null
September 1, 2010 @ 5:08 pm EDT
love it, way to go Richard and Richard :)
Rob Chandler
September 1, 2010 @ 6:08 pm EDT
Great purchase and hope the very best for the new business venture… they sure have the ultimate and most relevant “domain name” for it :)
cctld it
September 2, 2010 @ 4:09 am EDT
Great buy…
Richard Meyer
September 2, 2010 @ 9:52 am EDT
Congratulations on the purchase.
And, some people thought it wouldn’t sell.
:)
This is not a case of a couple guys buying
it on a long shot of success.
Richard Lau has been in the registrar business
for 10 yrs. (??)
I know Richard Lau has the business skills to
make this project very successful.
And, Richard Kirkendall is another success
story.
Since, both of them are already well known
registrars, Icann will immediately approve
ownership change.
Very impressive purchase.
I wish them my best.
Kunal
September 2, 2010 @ 11:31 am EDT
It is a nice domain name..DomainName..DomainName.com
Grabbed by NameCheap..hope it does have the same excellent service like NameCheap.com
Husein Yuseinov
September 2, 2010 @ 11:54 am EDT
Congratulations guys!
Definitely great domain and also a good buyers. Namecheap is my preferred domain registrar, so the acquisition just make me feel better.
Wish them all the best!
Joe Alagna
September 2, 2010 @ 2:13 pm EDT
Congrats guys. Looks like a great move.
Visionair
September 2, 2010 @ 3:08 pm EDT
Nice marriage.
DomainNameCheap.com
Nasy Mylanchi
September 3, 2010 @ 7:03 am EDT
Richs,
A great deal to success
fendi handbags
September 6, 2010 @ 3:53 am EDT
Wow, that is the quickest success story I’ve ever heard. Did you already have some contacts at GoDaddy and Rick Dees? It seems very unusual to get picked up by them so quickly. Best of luck to you in the inevitably bright future! -Josh