ISIS Wallet™ payment service announced on July 7, 2014 that the company will be rebranding ISIS in the coming months due to the companies name being used by a militant group.
Well, I am confident enough to announce that ISIS will very likely be Softcard!
A lot of “Softcard” domain names have been registered starting on July 31, 2014 and continue each day and most have very similar connections to domain names used by ISIS now.
ISIS currently uses PayWithISIS.com as it’s main website right now. PayWithSoftcard.com has been registered via MarkMonitor, the same domain registrar service used by JVL Ventures LLC dba Isis.
Tap to pay is a term used by ISIS and the domain TapWithSoftcard.com has been registered.
IsIsMobileWallet.com is owned by ISIS, SoftcardMobileWallet.com has been registered.
Over 30 domains that I have found have been registered, so this makes me strongly think that ISIS will become Softcard! Clearly this is “early” in the efforts of JVL but I report on things that I see and what I think they are.
Softcard.com has yet to be secured based on what I can see, but a fair amount of activity (via whois look-ups) have been taking place, so a likely effort is in place to secure that domain. This would be an important domain for them to secure, but they also launched not owning ISIS.com.
Here is the full list of recently registered domains that I could dig up and verify using whois that are very likely connected to ISIS and the brand management service MarkMonitor.
softcardwallet.com
paywithsc.com
scmobilewallet.com
softcard.biz
soft.cards (new gTLD domain)
softcard.co
tapwithsoftcard.com
softcardallianceprogram.com
softcardmobilecommerceplatform.com
gosoftcard.com
softcardmobile.com
softcardsucks.com
softcardmobilewallet.com
softcardmobilewalletsucks.com
softcardwalletclassaction.com
softcardforbusiness.com
paywithsoftcardsucks.com
softcardcommerceplatform.com
softcardwalletlawsuit.com
paywithsoftcard.com
softcardmobilewalletlawsuit.com
softcardinnovationforum.com
softcardfail.com
softcardwalletsucks.com
softcardoffers.com
softcardprint.com
getsoftcard.com
softcardofferssucks.com
savewithsoftcard.com
softcardlawsuit.com
softcardclassaction.com
softcardmobilewalletclassaction.com
softcardofferssuck.com
sofcard.com
soft-card.com
DNStination Inc. is displayed in whois records for the domains, and this is basically a “general” holder when the client doesn’t wish to be revealed yet. A whois privacy if you wish.
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You have good investigative skills, Jamie. Keep it up.
Congrats! A month ahead of the news: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/03/isis-mobile-wallet-rebrands-to-softcard-to-distance-from-miltant-terror-group/
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Funny how they have registered so many “softcard*SUCKS**.com” addresses.
Anyway, good job 8)
It’s not overly uncommon for companies to do the defensive registrations right away. Some companies go over the top with it and some just do the basics.