It appears eBay is making plans to launch their own software foundation. On September 28, 2011, eBay Inc. registered over half a dozen domain names related to: eBay Software Foundation.
The list of names includes: ebay-softwarefoundation.com, ebay-softwarefoundation.net, ebay-softwarefoundation.org, ebaysf.com, ebaysf.net, ebaysf.org, ebaysoftwarefoundation.com, ebaysoftwarefoundation.net, and ebaysoftwarefoundation.org.
Although nothing has been announced yet so it’s not official, one would imagine that the “eBay Software Foundation” might be a non-profit organization that provides support for the eBay community of open-source software projects, similar to the Apache Software Foundation.
Less than two weeks ago, eBay Inc. registered six different ‘eBay Insights’ domain names such as eBayInsights.com and eBay-Insights.com, following the company’s announcement it was building a new division to woo developers and attract merchants called X.commerce.
Here’s a look at the Whois record for eBaySoftwareFoundation.com.
Registrant:
Domain Administrator
eBay Inc.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose CA 95125
US
Domain Name: ebaysoftwarefoundation.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact:
Domain Administrator
eBay Inc.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose CA 95125
US
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Domain Administrator
eBay Inc.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose CA 95125
US
Created on…………..: 2011-09-28.
Expires on…………..: 2013-09-28.
Record last updated on..: 2011-09-28.
At the time of this story going online, none of the domains resolve to a web site.
