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Canada to become Tangerine? They bought Tangerine.com for $100k. — ING Direct

Canada to become Tangerine? They bought Tangerine.com for $100k. — ING Direct

Odds are that ING Direct Canada will soon by called Tangerine.

David and Michael Castello recently sold Tangerine.com for $100,000, as noted on DNJournal this stretch.

The buyer? ING Direct Canada.

George Kirikos, a Canadian domain name investor, just tweeted out that he believes ING Direct Canada is regarding to change its name to Tangerine:

tangerine

Scotiabank disclosed a deal regarding a year ago to acquire the firm, and time is running out for it to change the bank’s name.

Kirikos also noticed that Tangerine.ca recently changed hands. The fresh owner – which is surely ING Direct Canada – transferred the domain name to brand protection registrar CSC.

Capital One bought the U.S. version of ING Direct and has since renamed it Capital One 360.

ING Direct has an orange brand, so this rebranding is quite clever.

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