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Files Trademarks, Tips Its Hand — Go Daddy

Files Trademarks, Tips Its Hand — Go Daddy

Trademarks might show what domain name registrar is up to.

domains, websites, and everything in betweenGoDaddy has filed a number of trademarks in the past couple months — some of which may foreshadow fresh services from the firm.

First, the firm filed a pair of trademark applications for its fresh slogan “Domains, websites, and everything* in between”. The firm started using the fresh slogan back in March as stated by the applications. A few days later it filed an application for the graphic version of the slogan as well as the standard character mark.

On April 29 the firm submitted a trademark application for “Claim your Domain”. I noticed that a couple of the entries to GoDaddy’s commercial contest are titled “Claim Your Domain”. I’m not aware of the firm using this slogan ahead of, so perhaps these commercials will be winners in the contest? [Update: as a commenter pointed out, rival Network Solutions owns the domain name ClaimYourDomain.com.]

On April 8 GoDaddy filed an application for Protect.me, which is right now a reserved .me domain name. It looks like the firm is going to offer a security product under the domain. The classes for the trademark are related to security, counting domain privacy services and SSL certificates.

Other recent trademark applications include “Elastic Data Center”, “We Make Websites Easy”, and “Data Widgets”.

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