Arris is the new owner of Surfboard.com, a domain name that was owned by Motorola. The domain name had nothing to do with water but related to a technology, cable modem. The Motorola SURFboard was one of the products involved in a purchase by Arris of the Motorola Home Division that Google sold about a year after purchasing Motorola.
Arris paid about $2.2 billion in cash money for the Motorola Home Division, plus stock in early 2013 according to Engadget!
Arris states the SURFboard is the number one selling cable modem. The Surfboard.com domain name is a stand alone website featuring the cable modem product. I’m not sure why the domain has taken so long to change ownership from Motorola to Arris, but it did, as the domain just changed to Arris.
Surfboard.com was registered November 1, 1996 but was dropped from the registry two times prior to that. Motorola had owned the domain since at least 2004.
Interesting to note, Arris uses the domain name Arrisi.com (with an i after Arris). According to whois records, it would appear “Arris” owns the domain Arris.com, but upon visiting arris.com and www.arris.com, neither domain resolve other than to a 404 not found page. I have zero clue as to why in the world they would do this. If they want to use Arrisi.com, fine but at least redirect Arris.com to Arrisi.com!
