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What domains Cisco and others bought at Uniregistry

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Cisco bought a new domain for a product launch, plus other domain purchases.

Logo for Cisco Silicone One

Cisco acquired SiliconOne.com before announcing its new product.

Uniregistry release its top 20 sales for the last two weeks combined, and it had some nice domains. The most notable buyer is Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), but it wasn’t the most expensive domain on the list. Here’s what I dug up:

1. companionpet.com $25,000 – Someone using Google Registrar bought the domain. I suspect it’s an end user.

2. phoneparts.com $25,000 – Whois privacy.

3. xtag.com $23,000 – Pixeline Technologies is an Israeli firm that provides a conference technology called Xtag.

4. ventured.com $20,000 – The buyer is setting up a WordPress site.

5. poas.com $20,000 – The buyer might be in the UK.

6. b2bsales.com $16,500 – The domain forwards to GetReqs.com, a technology for recruiters.

7. uterineprolapse.com $16,000 – Someone in Missouri bought this domain.

8. spartacus.net $12,000 – Whois privacy

9. kosmetics.com $10,000 – The domain is forwarding to TheBomb.com, which is coming soon.

10. nonchalant.com $10,000 – Channing and Company, a branding and design company, bought this domain.

11. bitradio.com $10,000 – This was a wise purchase for the free radio service that uses the domain bitrad.io.

12. invinity.com $10,000 – Someone in California bought this domain.

13. siliconone.com $9,600 – Cisco bought this for Silicone One, the brand name of its new silicon.

14. ngine.com $8,325 – It appears the buyer is ecommerce company Ngine, which uses the domain Ngine.se.

15. sporttravel.com $8,050 – The domain has a coming soon page that says you will be able to book sports travel packages.

16. nysu.com $8,000 – E Commerce Ventures Inc in Wyoming

17. uncommon.org $7,750 – Someone in New York bought this domain

18. zonesafe.com $7,600 – The domain forwards to ZoneSafe.net, a company that offers proximity warnings to prevent human/machine collisions.

19. metaphores.com $5,500 – French intellectual property attorneys Scan Advocats. It likely bought this for a client.

20. butterflywing.com $5,000 – Someone in British Columbia.

Cisco gets typosquatting patent

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Patent describes way of using IP information to separate “legitimate” from “illegitimate” typosquatting.

Diagram of Cisco patent for typosquatting

A diagram from Cisco’s typosquatting patent

Cisco has been granted U.S. Patent Number 10,491,614 (pdf) for “Illegitimate typosquatting detection with internet protocol information.”

The patent is for detecting typo domain names using internet protocol (IP) information. It compares this to other methods of detecting typosquatting, which can necessitate visiting the typo domain name to determine what’s happening with it.

Another “novelty” of the invention is comparing what the inventors call “illegitimate typosquatting” and “legitimate typosquatting.”

The inventors note that many typo domain names are owned by the same company that owns the legitimate domain. These companies purchased the domains as a defensive measure, and these domains don’t need to be marked as bad. Of course, a simple way of doing this is seeing if the domain names using the same IP address as that of the correct domain.