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Boeing registers domain names about 737 Max

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Aerospace company registers domains to provide information about the return of the 737 Max.

Picture of the 737 Max airplane from Boeing

The 737 Max has been grounded since March. Picture courtesy Boeing.

Embattled aerospace company Boeing (NYSE: BA) has registered a handful of domain names about its troubled 737 Max airplane. Boeing has been providing regular updates about its progress getting the 737 Max back into the skies at www.boeing.com/commercial/737max/737-max-update.page. One of the following domain names would certainly make it easier for people to find this information.

This week, the company registered:

  • 737maxupdate.com, .net .org
  • 737maxupdates.com, .net, .org
  • 737update.com, .net, .org
  • 737updates.com, .net, .org

As of this morning, the domain names point to Boeing’s nameservers but none of the domain names resolve to websites.

The 737 Max has been grounded since March after the second fatal crash involving the plane.

Clemson Tigers get off-field win in domain name dispute

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Tigers score domain name in cybersquatting challenge.

Logo for the Clemson Tigers has a pawprint on orange backgroundThe Clemson Tigers are having another great year on the football field, and now they have an off-field victory as well. This win took place at World Intellectual Property Organization.

Clemson University has won a cybersquatting dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for the domain name ClemsonUniversity(.)org. With the victory, Clemson will get the domain name in about 10 days.

Interestingly, Clemson doesn’t own ClemsonUniversity(.)com but hasn’t filed a cybersquatting complaint against that domain.

Both domains should concern the university. When I visited ClemsonUniversity(.)org today, Norton blocked my visit saying that it had the RIG Exploit Kit. The domain currently points to the Above.com nameservers, which means it’s pointing somewhere else from there and is likely serving zero-click ads that forward to various destinations.

ClemsonUniversity(.)com also resolves to zero-click, which means visitors are sometimes exposed to scammy websites. When I visited this morning, it tried to install a Google Chrome extension.

16 end user domain sales up to £42,500

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A sustainable coffee producer, delivery app and video game maker bought domain names.

Picture of bundles of 500 euro notes with the words "End User Domain Sales" and the logo for Sedo

Sedo’s top end user sale of the week was Sudoku.net for £42,500. It’s surprising to see .net top the list, and it’s also surprising to see a .co.uk domain come in at #2.

Here’s a look at recent end users sales at Sedo. See prior end user lists here.

Sudoku.net £42,500 – An online sudoku puzzle website operator bought the domain.

Tide.co.uk £35,400 – The domain forwards to Tide.co, a business credit card company.

Grab.ai $12,500- GrabTaxi Holdings offers deliveries and transport via app request. It also owns the domain Grab.com.

Salv.com $10,000 – A new anti-money laundering, crime-fighting platform for financial companies.

Campings.be €9,990 – The same company that bought Campings.se for €4,000 earlier this year.

PureLifeFoods.com $8,888 – This domain was purchased by Mayorga Coffee, a sustainable coffee company.

BuyDo.com $6,995 – This is an ecommerce store selling electronics and fashion goods. Phonetically, it’s a lot like Baidu, isn’t it?

Atropa.com €6,595 – Forwards to Atropa.at. This new .com domain was purchased by Atropa Wellness, an Austrian wellness services provider focused on infrared saunas.

CloverGames.com $5,500 – Clover Games is a Korean video game maker.

UKDE.com €5,000 – The company’s website is still under development but it might offer financial services.

Panq.com $4,650 – A Netherlands-based software company service called Panq uses the domain name Panq.nl. It assists app developers in optimizing their offerings such as reducing the load times to increase engagement.

Probe.fr €2,300 – A French storage locker/cabinet maker called Probe.

Copter.io $2,200 – Lots of games use .io, and this is used by a game called Copter.io.

CureAmerica.org $2,112 – Purchased by Cure Violence Global, a nonprofit group with the mission statement “A World Without Violence”. It supports initiatives to aid in preventing the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control.

CompareISAs.com £2,000- A comparison site for ISA, which is a British term for Individual Savings Accounts.

TAF.us $2,000 – The Athlete’s foot shoeseller.

A sock company, game store and more bought domains at Uniregistry

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Here are some of the companies that bought domains at Uniregistry this week.

Screenshot of the website at NoveltySocks.com that sells novelty socks

This Australian sock seller picked the domain name NoveltySocks.com for its website.

Would a gaming shop in Bentonville, Arkansas pay $10,000 for a domain name so that it could move is online presence from just a Facebook page to an actual website? It appears so.

It’s just one of the end users that bought domain names at Uniregistry this past week.

Here’s what I could find about the top 20 domains that sold at the marketplace:

1. extasy.com $18,000 – The domain has Whois privacy. This is another spelling of the drug ecstasy.

2. mytips.com $17,000 – Another domain with Whois privacy that doesn’t resolve yet.

3. ohne.com $15,000 – OHNE, which uses Ohne.co, bought the domain and forwards it to the .co domain. The company sells products for womens’ periods.

4. plantastic.com $12,000 – I believe the buyer is Premier Foods, which recently launched a product line called Plantastic.

5. earlyedition.com $10,500 – Whois privacy and no indications about the buyer.

6. wig.ca $10,000 – The domain may be for Canada, but it was bought by someone in Texas. Other than that, we don’t know much about the buyer.

7. geargaming.com $10,000 – It appears that a gaming store in Arkansas is upgrading from Facebook to a website.

8. stockauto.com $9,000 – The buyer also runs a site at OldsParts.com with Oldsmobile car parts.

9. houst.com $8,200 – This appears to be a play on the word “host”, as in Airbnb hosts. It forwards to Airsorted, a business that helps short-term rental hosts manage their homes.

10. LL9.com $8,000 – The domain is at GoDaddy using Whois privacy.

11. gotosea.com $8,000 – Whois shows the buyer is in Washington DC.

12. eaglex.com – $7,600 – This is likely related to a cryptocurrency project called Eagle Project.

13. noveltysocks.com $5,200 – What will you find on this website? Yep, socks.

14. screensource.com $5,000 – Whois reveals that the buyer is a German company, but that’s all we have to work on for now.

15. pantechnicon.com $5,000 – It seems that a new London restaurant called Pantechicon bought the domain. It uses the domain ThePantechnicon.com.

16. aceauto.co.uk $3,900 – I can’t figure out anything about the buyer.

17. freebooksummaries.com $3,500 – Whois shows a buyer in Oslo but nothing else.

18. hairycellleukemia.com $3,500 – Hairy Cell Leukemia is a rare type of cancer. I don’t know who bought the domain.

19. kitun.com $3,500 – Chicago entrepreneur Scott Kitun bought the domain for his website.

20. bimcollaboration.com $2,393 – It has Whois privacy and resolves to a registrar holding page.

Lotto.com and Naturals.com hit with cybersquatting complaints

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Two valuable dictionary word domains are subject to UDRP filings.

Screenshot for Naturals.in showing a woman sitting on a chair

A chain of beauty salons in India that uses the domain Naturals.in is trying to get Naturals.com through UDRP.

After publishing my story this morning about the fight between a lotto company and Lotto Sport, a reader pointed out that Lotto.com was recently hit with a UDRP. It’s not the only recent filing against a valuable dictionary term domain name.

For Lotto.com, the case was filed by Bremer Toto und Lotto GmbH. The company uses the domain name lotto-bremen.de. I’m not sure how lotteries work in Germany, so perhaps a reader can chime in with information on if this is a local lotto or some sort of national lottery in Germany.

The domain is registered to a company called Cavour Ltd. based in Isle of Man.

The second domain that caught my attention is Naturals.com. WIPO shows the Complainant to be Veena Kumaravel, an entrepreneur with a chain of 550 beauty salons in India that use the name Naturals. The company uses the domain Naturals.in.

The domain is registered to Daegu Law Auction in Korea.

[Update: Elliot Silver has more info on Naturals.com]