Merlin Kauffman – True Magic LLC.
The domain Projects.com, registered in 1995 was mysteriously allowed to expire and drop.
Its former registrant, domain investor Merlin Kauffman and his company, True Magic LLC, owned it since 2008, having acquired it for an undisclosed amount.
Somehow, Projects.com appears to have escaped Kauffman’s group of renewals; the domain was registered with Fabulous.com when it dropped.
So who caught Merlin Kauffman’s dropped domain jewel?
Surprisingly, it is not DropCatch, a company that has been known to utilize its extensive Registry resources efficiently.
According to our research, the registrar is ALETHIA DOMAINS, LLC – an Oregon corporation formed in late 2014 and an ICANN accredited registrar linked to SnapNames and its parent company, Web.com.
In other words, SnapNames is currently in possession of the domain, and a private auction should follow.
For the record, Alethia means “truth” in Greek.
It’s a real shame such a priceless domain was allowed to expire in the first place; we might never know why, or what price it will be sold for at SnapNames.
