Raymond Weil is a well-known Swiss watchmaking brand. The company uses Raymond-Weil.com as the domain name for its primary website, and it also has the Raymond-Weil.us ccTLD domain name for its US-based website. The non-hyphenated RaymondWeil.com domain name had been used as a forwarder to the watchmaker’s primary website, according to Archive.org.
This morning while looking through lists of domain names coming up for auction, I was surprised to see RaymondWeil.com on the pending delete list. I figured perhaps a third party owned the domain name and let it expire. A Whois search at DomainTools shows my assumption was incorrect. The domain name had been registered to the watch company.
It’s peculiar that the company would let this brand matching domain name expire, particularly since it uses a hyphenated domain name for its website.
Because the domain name is in pending delete status, I do not believe it can be recovered by the registrant prior to its full deletion. Once deleted, drop catching services like DropCatch.com and NameJet will compete to catch and auction this domain name if customers have it backordered.
I think there would be considerable trademark risk for an unrelated entity to own this domain name.
and of course the first thing i do is type in:
Raymond-Weil.com and it forwards to https://www.raymond-weil.us/
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