Amazon registers domains for Eye Gaze, Right Pet Tags, and more. Amazon held a product launch event earlier this week. And as it always does when it launches products, it undertook a seemingly futile effort to protect the product names in second ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Why did Reddit waste its money on these domains?
· Uncategorizedr/wastefuldefensivedomainregistrations One thing that baffles me about large companies is how much money they spend on defensive domain name registrations. These are domains that they'll never use but decide to register to keep them out of the ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Vanguard’s weird domain name registrations
· UncategorizedYou'll have to get creative to make a website about how woke the company is. It's common for companies to register names that could be used to say bad things about them. The most common defensive registration is CompanySucks .com. Bank of ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Pfizer gets in on NFT and metaverse domains
· Policy & LawLast week I wrote about bizarre domain registrations by AARP and other entities. They registered domains related to cryptocurrency, NFTs and metaverse. Add to that list Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), which registered a couple of dozen domains this week. The ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Abbott registers 100s of domains in wake of baby formula recall and lawsuits
· Policy & LawDefensive registrations primarily relate to lawsuits alleging a link between baby formula and necrotizing enterocolitis. Healthcare company Abbott (NYSE: ABT) registered hundreds of domain names this week in the wake of announcing a recent recall ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Are these Amazon domain registrations really necessary?
· UncategorizedSending Alexa to space and flushing money down the drain. Lockheed Martin announced last week that it worked with Amazon and Cisco on technology for space flight. Essentially, they're going to test how Amazon's Alexa and Cisco's WebEx could help in ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Amazon goes on two-factor domain binge after security announcement
· UncategorizedCompany registers 88 security-themed domains in useless exercise. Amazon.com announced two new cybersecurity initiatives this week. First, it is publicly releasing training materials that it uses with its own employees to prevent them from ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Walmart registers defensive domains for its U.S. CEO, but…
· Policy & LawThese domain registrations don't make a lot of sense. Walmart has registered over 20 domain names related to its Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner. Companies make these sorts of "defensive" domain name registrations all the time, with the hope of ... Continue Reading5 Comments
“Breach” is the new necessary defensive domain registration
· UncategorizedHertz registers data breach domain names. More companies should do this. These days it seems like the question isn't if a company will suffer a data breach or hack, it's when. When a company suffers a breach it usually rushes to register domain ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Kaiser registers “killing” domains
· UncategorizedWill these defensive domain name registrations actually deter detractors? A Mark Monitor client has registered a bunch of defensive domain names about how the company killed mom, dad and grandma. Although the registrations are protected with whois ... Continue Reading11 Comments