Major League Baseball acquires Twins.com domain name

Several top-flight sports leagues in the US have made domain names a priority for their teams, often at great expense. These domain names, often single-word .coms,  allow fans easy access to content associated with their teams.

The league with the most success is Major League Baseball.

Rangers.com cost MLB a hefty $375,000, with a 2015 DomainNameWire article reporting that Rangers.com was the 28th team name the league had acquired in .com. Despite the proactive efforts to acquire domains, three names have eluded MLB for some time.

These include Giants.com, Rays.com, and Twins.com.

Recently, MLB has managed to secure one of those domain names, Twins.com. Twins is the team name for the Minnesota Twins, named after the Twin Cities area that includes Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The Twins.com domain name had, until recently, been owned by twins Durland and Darvin Miller, who have reportedly received offers of up to $750,000 in the past, although the lucrative offers were likely from the adult industry.

While the twins were open to selling the domain name, once even reaching out to the Minnesota Twins directly, MLB never managed to secure the domain name. According to Grantland.com, MLB made contact with Durland and Darvin Miller at one point in time, but the two parties couldn’t agree on a price.

However, talks must have reopened and progressed, as MLB is now the registrant of Twins.com.

Here’s the Grantland article from 2015 on how the Twins couldn’t buy Twins.com