Domain and web hosting data company gets trademarks for “DomainTools”.
Remember when DomainTools was called (the much less desirable) whois.sc? It was shorter, but running a domain name business on a Seychelles ccTLD is no bueno.
It changed its name in 2006 to DomainTools and today was awarded two trademarks on its brand.
Trademark registration number 4,079,040 covers “DomainTools” for several uses, including “Downloadable computer software for providing access to internet domain registration and hosting data” and “advertising services in the field of internet domain names; services related to the analysis, evaluation, and sale of domain names.”
Registration number 4,079,041 is for the DomainTools logo.
rs says
That is interesting. I have been using Domain-Tools.com since 1999 to provide tools related to domains. I wonder if the trademark examiners check this stuff?
Robin Majumdar says
Interesting… I *still* use the whois.sc domain when researching domains 😉