Commercial Connect applies for .shop trademarks

Company vying for .shop files dead-on-arrival applications with USPTO. Commercial Connect, LLC, one of the companies planning to apply for the .shop top level domain, has filed two trademark applications with the U.S.

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Go Daddy Wants to Patent Way to Monetize URL Shorteners

A way to make money off of shortened URLs? There’s not a whole lot of money in shortening links. Go Daddy has devised a way to change that.

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ProForma: Why Build a Brand When You Can Buy One?

Domain broker files trademark application for a great slogan. Domain name broker ProForma Inc has filed a trademark application for a nifty slogan: Why Build a Brand When You Can Buy One? ProForma handles domain name brokerage for “some of the world’s largest portfolios of premium, generic domain names.” Anyone who has ever visited a domain owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration is familiar with ProForma, as Schilling uses ProForma for domain inquiries.

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