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YogaGlo Inc Acquires GLO.com Domain From Hearst Communications

May 10, 2018 Jamie Zoch

Glo.com has changed ownership from Hearst Communications, Inc. to YogaGlo, Inc. according to whois records.

Hearst acquired the domain name from Whalerock Industries (formally BermanBraun) in January 2017 according to whois history records. Hearst announced on May 4, 2017 that they were launching a new media brand called Glo that was to launch in September 2017 but didn’t appear to happen.

Glo.com whois record

I wasn’t able to find any connection between Hearst and YogaGlo, so this is a bit of a surprising … Read the rest

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Amazon Registers Domain With Google Trademark: AmazonAdwords.com

January 28, 2016 Jamie Zoch

Amazon Technologies registered two new domain names according to whois records that caught my attention on January 27, 2016

AdvertisingAmazon.com
AmazonAdwords.com

The first registration matches the sub-domain name used by Amazon for its AAP advertising program they offer. The second domain name registration is a No No IMO!

Amazon is fine, adwords is not.

Adwords is a registered trademark of Google Inc. and since AAP competes against Google Adwords by offering online advertising, I would think that Google would not … Read the rest

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Microsoft Files HoloNotes and HoloShot Trademarks

June 21, 2015 Jamie Zoch

Microsoft Corporation has filed yet again, more “Holo” trademarks and in this latest round includes the terms HoloNotes and HoloShot.

The HoloLens trademark and purchase of the domain name HoloLens.com for $6,750 kicked off the holo storm of trademark filings but has really not kicked off the matching domain name buying. With trademarks filed now for: