What is Google’s RoboHornet?

RoboHornet

It may be nothing, it may be something.  But what is known is that Google privately registered the domain names RoboHornet.com and RoboHornet.org on February 17, 2012, then removed the Whois privacy and transferred the domains to its own name servers a week later. RoboHornet.com (Whois) and … [Read more...]

Facebook snags adult entertainment domain name Facebookofsex dot-XXX

Facebookofsex.xxx Whois

One of the more popular phrases adult websites use to attract visitors is "Facebook of Sex".  Type the phrase into Google's search engine and the search results and sponsored ads that appear will show you just how many websites market themselves as the "Facebook of Sex". The Whois information … [Read more...]

Motorola files MOTOSMART, MOTOGO! trademarks for mobile and smartphones

Motorola smartphone

With the Mobile World Congress (MWC) set to begin shortly in Barcelona, Motorola has filed two new trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for MOTOSMART and MOTOGO!. The goods and services in the MOTOSMART trademark filing (Serial Number: 85548438) cover, … [Read more...]

Google Inc. registers more GoogleWeb, ChromeWeb, and Screenwise domains

Chromewebworks.com Whois

Search Engine Land's Matt McGee reported earlier this month that Google had registered a number of Labs, Screenwise and Adwords domains.  Among the list of fourteen names were domains like GoogleWebLab.com, ChromeWebLab.com, and ScreenwiseMedia.com. Now Google has registered more … [Read more...]

Xbox720.com owner redirects domain to US PlayStation 3 website [UPDATED]

Xbox 720

Update 2 on Feb. 24 at 8:16pm Est: Jeremiah Germany has commented on the story by e-mail.  Jeremiah wrote, "Yes, I still do own the domain.  I switched to namecheap after the godaddy SOPA fiasco, which came with free Whois Privacy.  Yesterday I was testing the redirect with namecheap.  … [Read more...]

Samsung files trademarks for Galaxy Axiom, Awaken, Heir, Rite smartphones

Samsung Galaxy smartphones

With the Mobile World Congress less than a week away, Samsung has filed four new trademarks for smartphones with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. On February 16, 2012, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. submitted trademark applications for the Samsung Galaxy Rite (Serial Number: … [Read more...]

Google goes after YouTube typo domains that it didn’t win in a previous dispute

YouTube logo

Google has been going after popular typos of the web address YouTube.com in recent months and it's been having its share of success in disputes, winning five typo domain names in early January and several more later that month in another case that also involved Google typo domains. However, … [Read more...]

Linsanity dot-com website changes from selling Lin apparel to Coming Soon page

Linsanity.com

It looks like Andrew Slayton who coached Jeremy Lin at Palo Alto High School in California and who registered the domain Linsanity.com in 2010, has opted to stop selling Lin-related apparel on the Linsanity.com website. As of today, instead of seeing t-shirts for sale with sayings like "Lin … [Read more...]

Ubisoft Entertainment registers Ghost Recon Network domains [UPDATED]

Ghost Recon Network

[Updated:. Ubisoft has unveiled Ghost Recon Network.] Original Story on February 2, 2012:.Does Ubisoft have something more in store for Ghost Recon? On February 15, 2012, Ubisoft Entertainment registered three new "Ghost Recon Network" domain names like GhostReconNetwork.com. The … [Read more...]

Microsoft registers KillmsnNOW and other anti-msnNOW domain names

msnNOW

Earlier this week, Microsoft launched a new site called msnNOW, which serves up the most interesting trends from real-time sources like Twitter. The site's launch was followed by the registration of over a dozen anti-msnNOW domains like BiteMemsnNOW.com, msnNOWblows.com and some other names … [Read more...]