Semiconductor firm purchased GF.com domain from retail fixtures firm

Goebel Fixture Firm sells GF.com to GlobalFoundries.

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Semiconductor firm GlobalFoundries appears to have purchased the two letter domain name GF.com earlier this year. Historical Whois records show the domain transferred in late March or early April.

Goebel Fixture Firm, a firm that sells fixtures and displays for luxury retail, owned the domain for at least two decades and might have been the original registrant in 1995. It changed its web address to goebelfc.com.

In a message on its website, Goebel Fixture Firm disclosed:

As Goebel evolves, we are updating our digital presence. Our domain name is changing from gf.com to goebelfc.com.

Changing our domain name to goebelfc.com makes it easier for our clients to find us online, and our commitment is to continually serve our clients.

I don’t think it will make it easier for clients, but I’m sure GlobalFoundries found a value that made the fixtures firm decide it was worth the hassle of changing domain names.

GlobalFoundries right now forwards GF.com to its website at GlobalFoundries.com.

Hat tip: Michael Wibbeke of managed IP GmbH

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