Voice is “Winding Down Operations”

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Yesterday evening, Michael Cyger shared an email that he received from Voice, the company that paid $30 million to acquire the Voice.com domain name in 2019. In the email Michael received, the company announced it will be shutting down.

In a series of tweets posted last night, Voice shared why it made the decision to shut down:

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Vestis Gets Defensive

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Many companies defensively register or acquire domain names as part of a domain name defense strategy. The most common strategy revolves around securing domain names that could be used by bad actors for cybersquatting, phishing, or other nefarious activity. Some companies take defensive domain registration further by securing domain names that could be used against the company in any negative manner.

Over the past few days, I noticed one company that has taken defensive domain name defense to a level I can’t recall seeing before. My DomainTools Registrant Monitor email identified many domain name registrations related to a brand called Vestis, and it looks like that business went on a massive defensive domain registration spree.

From what I can see, it looks like many of the domain names were registered under Whois privacy at GoDaddy in March and recently transferred to MarkMonitor, a brand protection-focused domain name registrar.

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Squadhelp CEO on Fox Business Discussing X

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There’s been a lot of talk about Twitter and its rebrand to X. It was probably the most popular topic of the day, particularly as it relates to the brand equity the company has built since it was founded.

This afternoon, Squadhelp CEO Darpan Munjal appeared on Fox Business as a branding expert to discuss the challenge Twitter faces with its X rebranding. Here’s the video of Darpan’s appearance:

Why IQBAR Upgraded to Its Brand Match Domain Name

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You don’t always see startup founders discussing how much they spent to acquire their domain name and why they felt it was necessary to do so.

Will Nitze, Founder of IQBAR, shared that his company acquired its brand match IQBAR.com domain name for $26,250. This was an upgrade from the call to action EatIQBAR.com domain name it had used since inception. IQBar.com was created in 2007, and it appears to have been owned by a business that owns many domain names.

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Squadhelp Introduces AI Business Name Generator

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Earlier this month when OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot was trending, I discussed some of the ways artificial intelligence (AI) could be used for domain investing. I cited a number of domain investors who shared the output of their ChatGPT queries on Twitter.

One area that wasn’t touched upon was how AI could be used to help people find brand names for their businesses. This morning, Squadhelp announced that it introduced an AI-based business name generation tool powered by GPT-3. The news was shared on Squadhelp’s Twitter page:

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LiveChat to Rebrand as Text

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This morning in my DomainTools Domain Monitor alert email, I saw that Text.com transferred from Namecheap to GoDaddy under Whois privacy. Text.com had been owned by Brent Oxley, and while he confirmed the sale, he could not comment further. There’s a brand new website on Text.com, but the Whois record and landing page didn’t shed much light onto who acquired the domain name.

Shortly after mentioning the sale on Twitter, I saw that the Investor Relations Twitter account of LiveChat tweeted about Text.com:

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