Trademarks might show what domain name registrar is up to.
GoDaddy has filed a number of trademarks in the past couple months — some of which may foreshadow new services from the company.
First, the company filed a pair of trademark applications for its new slogan “Domains, websites, and everything* in between”. The company started using the new slogan back in March according to the applications. A few days later it filed an application for the graphic version of the slogan as well as the standard character mark.
On April 29 the company submitted a trademark application for “Claim your Domain”. I noticed that a couple of the entries to GoDaddy’s commercial contest are titled “Claim Your Domain”. I’m not aware of the company using this slogan before, so perhaps these commercials will be winners in the contest? [Update: as a commenter pointed out, rival Network Solutions owns the domain name ClaimYourDomain.com.]
On April 8 GoDaddy filed an application for Protect.me, which is currently a reserved .me domain name. It looks like the company is going to offer a security product under the domain. The classes for the trademark are related to security, including domain privacy services and SSL certificates.
Other recent trademark applications include “Elastic Data Center”, “We Make Websites Easy”, and “Data Widgets”.
Jothan says
When I put the Domain Roundtable together back in 2005, GoDaddy had the best shirts I have ever seen… their logo on the front of a black T, and on the back in massive type “There’s a name for people like you…”. I have been asked over and over how to get a hold of one of these.
Adam says
So they’re filing trademark applications for products/services that don’t exist yet? ummm ??
Andrew Allemann says
@ Adam – likely “intent to use” applications. The apps didn’t mention a first use date.
Budi says
Hhhmmm….. GoDaddy, right?…… Hhmmm…..
Terry says
Interestingly claimyourdomain.com owned by NSI and has been since 98. Forwarded to a page that sells domains of course. Dunno how parsons will overcome that.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Terry – great find — that could be a problem.