Tag Archives: at&t

Tue 9th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
AT&T Should Sell Buzz.com to Google - Google launches Buzz. ATT owns Buzz.com. Google announced Google Buzz today. Immediately I thought of the domain name Buzz.com. A couple years ago I was working on a domain acquisition from ATT and, while searching whois, noticed that the company owned Buzz.com. The Buzz.com domain name has sat largely underutilized. Recently, a landing page for a closed-beta social networking service appeared on the site: About buzz.com: Want to know the best places to go or ... read more ...
Wed 29th October 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Trademark Holders Shouldn’t Rush to Get New TLDs - .eBay probably not worth it. One of the examples the mass media has given for the potential of new TLDs is .ebay . “Imagine eBay (NADSAQ: EBAY) being able to create cars.ebay and electronics.ebay”, is the general line of thought. I’m imagining, and I’m not imagining much. Why not just ebay.com/cars? In general, I don’t think trademark holders should plop down the $185,000 to get their own top level domain. Combined with preparing the application and ... read more ...
Tue 19th February 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
www.ATT.jobs? Seriously. - I’ve finally seen an ad with a .jobs domain. That’s a mistake. Monday afternoon I made the return car trip from Houston to Austin. It’s about a 3 hour drive without much to see. As I rolled into Austin I saw a billboard for ATT (NYSE: T). The ad called attention to jobs at ATT using the URL www.att.jobs. At this point I’d been driving for a few hours, so I did a double take. Where’s the domain extension? Is that supposed to be www.att.com/jobs? Or ... read more ...