Huge Corporation Acquires .INFO Domain
Oracle Corporation is the 18th largest company in America with a $122 billion market cap and 105,000 employees. Oracle specialize in database software. Their products fuel many of the world’s most successful enterprises.
Ron Jackson of DNJournal publishes a weekly domain name sales report, and I noticed that the last entry on his report was the sale of Oracle.info. Naturally, I wondered if perhaps Oracle Corp. had acquired the domain name. They did indeed purchase Oracle.info for a mere $1377. Quite a nice pick-up for the company who had also previously acquired “Oracle” in the .BIZ web address and also in the official .mobi (mobile) extension. In fact, the company have a fully developed .mobi complaint site in operation. Their .biz and .info versions are currently forwarding to the Oracle.com primary website.
As .INFO is one of the world’s leading web addresses based on sheer registration numbers (nearly 7 million), it is certainly logical that Oracle Corporation would obtain Oracle.info at such an affordable price. This rounds out their company domain portfolio quite well.
It should be noted that Oracle is a generic word typically meaning “a person or thing which acts as an agent of divine communication”. Consequently, Oracle Corporation would have no automatic trademark right to the word “oracle”. It’s good to see a company of their size using a legitimate avenue (aftermarket purchase) to acquire Oracle.info as opposed to misusing the UDRP in a reverse domain name hijacking attempt.
