Cognition.com Acquired by Cognition via Lumis

Cognition, one of the most high profile AI companies, has acquired its brand matching Cognition.com domain name. According to a post on LinkedIn this morning, the deal was brokered by Lumis:

Whois records at DomainTools shows the domain name may have changed hands in late May. It had been registered under Whois privacy at GoDaddy and it transferred to MarkMonitor, where it is now publicly registered to Cognition AI, Inc.

Ode with Anthropic Launched on Ode.com

Ode.com has changed hands. According to a press release issued yesterday, Ode with Anthropic, an AI services company, was launched under its new branding using the Ode.com domain name for its website. The company started out as Fractional AI before its rebrand and launch.

In the daily DomainIQ Domain Monitor email I received last night, I saw the Ode.com nameservers changed, as did the Whois registration. The domain name has long been owned by a domain investment company, and the nameservers changed to AWS. Ode.com did not transfer out of Namecheap, but the Whois record for the domain name is now private.

WebHosting.com Acquired by WordPress Parent Automattic

The valuable WebHosting.com domain name has changed hands. The new owner of WebHosting.com is Automattic, the company that owns and operates WordPress. I suspect WebHosting.com will become a web hosting platform appealing to operators of WordPress-based websites. For the time being, Automattic has a “coming soon” lander on WebHosting.com.

NBA Acquires NBAE.com Domain Name

I read the Associated Press report today that said the NBA (National Basketball Association) has teamed up with FIBA to launch a European basketball league. Out of curiosity, I checked to see who owns NBAE.com, which I think would be the ideal domain name for a NBA Europe league website.

Whois records at DomainTools show the NBAE.com domain name is registered to the NBA via GoDaddy Corporate Domains.

Can You Snag a Photo of This Snagged Cab Ad?

Rob Schutz, Founder of the Snagged.com domain brokerage, shared some photos of a new advertising campaign he is running. Snagged.com has a digital advertising campaign running on the top of New York City taxi cabs. Rob shared photos of the ad campaign with an offer for anyone who is able to snag a photo of a taxi with the advertisement:

US Futsal has Best Domain Name

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My son plays soccer pretty much year-round. In the Winter, his team practices a couple of times a week, but they don’t have a regular match schedule beyond a single tournament in Florida. To supplement this, he plays for his club’s Futsal team in the Winter. Futsal is a small-sided version of soccer played indoors on a hard court with a smaller and heavier ball.