Welcome to Domain Movers, where DotWeekly keeps track of corporate domain name transactions and reports the findings to you. These are often early indicators of new brands, products, services, advertising campaigns and more by some of the largest companies in the world.

Here are the latest movers detected over the past 24 hours.

Abbvie Inc. has had its brand name domain name Vicodin.com seized by the US Government’s ICE division. I covered this breaking news story in detail earlier this … Read the rest

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Abbvie Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the medication brand name Vicodin has had its main brand name domain name Vicodin.com seized by Homeland Security’s ICE division!

Visiting the Vicodin.com domain name displays a take down message from Homeland Security’s ICE division:

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Abbott Laboratories spun off Abbvie pharmaceuticals in 2013, but has long owned the domain name Vicodin.com since at least 2007 and uses the website to provide information about its product. Whois records show Abbvie owns the domain name:

Vicodin.com whois records

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Welcome to Domain Movers, where DotWeekly keeps track of corporate domain name transactions and reports the early findings to you.

Here are the latest movers over the past 24 hours.

BeamCast.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client. The domain was for sale using Uniregistry and has been registered since 2003.

EnteroMedics Inc. has acquired vBlock.com at domain name aftermarket service Sedo for an undisclosed amount.

Money Guru LTD. has acquired its EMD, MoneyGuru.com. The domain name … Read the rest

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Waitr hasn’t heard the memo, that kind of branding died many years ago! Considering the fact that Waitr “sounds like” Waiter, you instantly have a branding problem.

Add to the monumental problem of the “sounds like” doesn’t match realization, Waitr uses yet a different domain name than it’s branded name, Waitr. Wait, what? Waitr isn’t Waitr.com? Nope, WaitrApp.com. Double trouble or is that triple trouble!

Oh, come on now!

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