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[iboughta.com]

Hello,

We are well aware that:

Radio.com is owned by CBS
Rum is owned by Diageo for Captain Morgan
Bank.co.uk is owned by Barclays PLC
Breakfast.co.uk by Kellogg's

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I was wondering if any famous brands own some great keyword .org/net/info ?

Thanks

[ksinclair]

I have a nice list of brands owning .com domains at: InternetDomainName.info.

(its just a blog site, I am not promoting any sales by referring to it). If people know of premium domains in other TLD's, please email me and I will add them to the site. It would be a nice resource.

[INVIGOR]

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[iboughta.com]

There are tons of them:

bras.com
underwear.com
lift.com
elevator.com
escalator.com
cymbals.com
reactor.com
bleach.com
welder.com

There are at least two old threads here with some robust information, but I never have any luck finding them.

Thanks for your reply Wmloz. However my questions is specific extensions other than .com & cctld.

I've managed to find extensive list of generic .com owned by Big brand, but nothing on the other extension. And a few days search on the whois did not bring me any luck.

[INVIGOR]

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[Ulysses]

Hello,

We are well aware that:

Radio.com is owned by CBS
Rum is owned by Diageo for Captain Morgan
Bank.co.uk is owned by Barclays PLC
Breakfast.co.uk by Kellogg's

....

I was wondering if any famous brands own some great keyword .org/net/info ?

Thanks

BMW.mobi
ESPN.mobi
Disney.mobi
Time.mobi
NBA.mobi
Hertz.mobi

too many to list, i found this list at http://why.mobi/brands.php

[HomerJ]

Well your post isn't 100% clear and certainly NOT specific... Why don't you CLEARLY STATE you're looking for examples OTHER THAN DOT COMS,

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I was wondering if any famous brands own some great keyword .org/net/info ?

[iboughta.com]

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Thanks Homer

---------- Post added at 11:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:59 AM ----------

Hello,

Here I am for a quick update:

So, yes not many companies bought into info, org, biz, net even the ones which are considered "domain clever".

In domain clever, I will put General Electric, Kraft, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson + a few pharmaceutical companies (by far the largest domains portfolio owners..based on my search)

These are the only names I found some far:
3M own Projectors.org / MacAfee own Webimmune.net & Hackerwatch.org / Johnson & Johnson own Diaperrash.info / Office Depot own: depot.biz /

Limited to pharmaceutical companies: quite few info & biz registered, but those names seems to be trademark, so not really keyword/generic domains.

I will continue my research.

Please feel free to add your contribution

[HomerJ]

3M own Projectors.org

they are one of the biggest corporations i never knew about. i looked them up in the thomas register recently. they are into everything

[draggar]

I don't think you'll find a lot of generic non-.coms owned by corporations. These are primarily best for devlopment and not good for type-in traffic.

Sure, you'll see a TON of .coms (books.com is owned by B&N, pets.com is owned by PetSmart (even though it was an extablished company for a while)) but most will pass on the non .com domains since they are not interested in development, only pointing to a site of their's.

You will see a lot of non .com domains for brands (as mentioned in Ulysses' post) but these are not generics and more for their own brand's protection.

I just typed though a few dozen .net and .org for popular generic keywords and it seemed most fit in two categories, either a parked page or a blog of some sort. The rest either didn't resolve or were flagged as malicious. I think maybe one or two were actual businesses (but they were using that domain).

Now, here's a question - could a company own it stealthfully and have someone else develop it as a personal site but promote the company?

[URLtrader]

Here are some of the best :--

http://blog.domaintools.com/tags/great-generic/

Thanks.

[iboughta.com]

Now, here's a question - could a company own it stealthfully and have someone else develop it as a personal site but promote the company?

Do you have any example in mind ? or is it a suggestion ?

[think]

I'm not sure if you are counting Dot Mobi generic names owned by brands but if you are here are some. I tried to list only those where the generic wasn't also the one of a company's brand names but a few are just as they a very generic:

3DGAMERS.MOBI - Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
BABYSTEPS.MOBI - General Electric Company
BLVD.MOBI - American Express Company
BOULEVARD.MOBI - American Express Company
BREEZE.MOBI - Adobe Systems Incorporated
BREW.MOBI - QUALCOMM Incorporated
CHEESEBURGER.MOBI - Outback Steakhouse, Inc.
CITIZENS.MOBI - Frontier Communications
COMMISSIONER.MOBI - CBS Corp.
CONTACTLENSES.MOBI - Johnson and Johnson
D-B.MOBI - Deutsche Bank AG
DIABLO.MOBI - PIRELLI PNEUMATICI S.p.A
DRIVER.MOBI - S.p.A., PIRELLI PNEUMATICI
DIRECTOR.MOBI - Adobe Systems Incorporated

E-SERVICES.MOBI - Air France
ELECTRON.MOBI - Visa
FAMILIES.mobi - The MORMONS
FAMILYTIME.MOBI - T-Mobile USA, T-Mobile USA
FILMSCHOOL.MOBI - Independent Film Channel LLC, The
FLOWERSTOGO.MOBI - 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC.
FRIENDS.MOBI - Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
JNJ.MOBI - Johnson and Johnson
KNOXVILLE.MOBI - E.W. Scripps Company
LIVELOCAL.MOBI - Microsoft Corporation
LIVEMUSIC.MOBI - Microsoft Corporation
LIVENEWS.MOBI - Microsoft Corporation
MCALL.MOBI - Tribune Company
MOBILEGEAR.MOBI - Target Brands, Inc.
MOBILEADS.MOBI - Infospace, Inc.
MOBILENEWS.MOBI - Microsoft Corporation
MUGSHOT.MOBI - Red Hat, Inc.
NEWYEARSEVE.MOBI - Disney Enterprises, Inc.
ONMOBILE.MOBI - Deutsche Telekom AG
P-G.MOBI - Procter & Gamble
P-I.MOBI - The Hearst Corporation
PAGERANK.MOBI - Google Technology Inc
PAYME.MOBI - Visa
PAYPASS.MOBI - MasterCard International
PICTUREIT.MOBI - Microsoft Corporation
PLUS.MOBI - Visa
PREVIEWS.MOBI - Coldwell Banker Real Estate
PROX.MOBI - Visa
PROXIMATE.MOBI - Johnson & Johnson
PROXIMITY.MOBI - Visa
PUBLICOPINION.MOBI - Nordstrom's
REDEYE.MOBI - Tribune Company
REFILL.MOBI - cingular
ROADSIDEASSISTANCE.MOBI - Cingular Wireless II, LLC
ROLLOVER.MOBI - cingular
SCI-FI.MOBI - Universal City Studios LLLP
SLEUTH.MOBI - General Electric Company
SYNCMYCAR.MOBI - Ford Motor Company
THINK.MOBI - IBM
UTI.mobi - Johnson and Johnson

[draggar]

Do you have any example in mind ? or is it a suggestion ?

It's a thought - it wouldn't be too stealthful if everyone knew it. But - say someone who worked for Dell owned computers.net (100% hypothetical) and use it as a blog about computers but was good about advertising Dell computers on the site?

I'm not sure if you are counting Dot Mobi generic names owned by brands but if you are here are some. I tried to list only those where the generic wasn't also the one of a company's brand names but a few are just as they a very generic:

That whole list is .mobi. While many are generic non-.com domains it makes me think - did companies realize the potential too late but then tried to get in on the .mobi craze? I checked some in that list and they either forwarded to the company's main site or the page didn't resolve. I think this might be the limit - .org / .net and many .us / .info (and other ccTLD) domains may be too expensive so they resort to the lesser-valued TLDs but - if they're using them as a redirect, is it actually getting enough traffic?

[iboughta.com]

That whole list is .mobi. While many are generic non-.com domains it makes me think - did companies realize the potential too late but then tried to get in on the .mobi craze?

Yes, interesting list "THINK".

Boulevard.mobi or BLVD for Amex ?

I am still hopeful (dreaming...) that someone will come with some great generic .org/nef/info registered by BigBrand.

[MarkG3636]

[QUOTE=think;1852712]I'm not sure if you are counting Dot Mobi generic names owned by brands but if you are here are some. I tried to list only those where the generic wasn't also the one of a company's brand names but a few are just as they a very generic:

LIVELOCAL.MOBI - Microsoft Corporation
LIVEMUSIC.MOBI - Microsoft Corporation
LIVENEWS.MOBI - Microsoft Corporation


Thanks for that list. I feel better now. I got www.3DLIVE.mobi