Unfortunately, the Wayback Machine http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cherry.com/ is down right now, because I had the same thought and was wondering who used to operate the domain.

Was surprised it wasn't the keyboard people, to be honest. (It turns out that they live at http://www.cherrycorp.com/)

You and me both, as my surname is Cherry and was supposed to be notified if it ever became available on the market!

It's possible that it became "available" because the owners were approached with a price and decided to take the money.

I think you may be referring to some automated agent that would tell you if it became available through standard channels (Sedo, etc).