paa.com expiring today...

[twiki]

Kind of strange to see such com expiring.

 

[Future Sensors]

Where do you see that date?

Updated Date: 2020-11-30T12:16:13Z
Creation Date: 1997-08-02T04:00:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-10-14T16:13:48Z

 

[twiki]

Pending delete domains on ExpiredDomains.net for example.

It's dropping today, couple hours from now on. Bid on Dropcatch if interested... but it will go expensive.

Edit: Also on SnapNames

Edit2: Title is bad, it should have been expired and dropping today.

 

[twiki]

paa.com Cr: 1997-08-02 Chg: 2020-11-30 Exp:
Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
- clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
- pendingDelete https://icann.org/epp#pendingDelete
my own whois

 

[Future Sensors]

Interesting indeed @twiki

 

[twiki]

It's not the only one dropping recently, I saw another 3-letter like 2-3 weeks ago. Can't remember the name though.

Happens from time to time for some reason...

 

[twiki]

DropCatch got it (no surprise there...), now we shall see how much it goes for $$$$$

 

[branding]

Guess they won't be using CSC again anytime soon

 

[tupungato]

$50k so far.

 

[Jeffrey]

Paa is "legs" in many Philippine languages/dialects

 

[twiki]

Now $60k... curious how much it can still grow in price.

 

[pb]

Guess they won't be using CSC again anytime soon

Whose was it?

 

[branding]

Whose was it?

It forwarded to GE healthcare. Which was rebranded/merged(?) to Cytiva Life sciences. After a 20+ Billion acquisition by Danaher Corporation earlier this year.

Edit: GE healthcare acquired paa laboratories in 2011, that's how they ended up with the domain.

Edit 2: bottom line, this should never have happened. It won't really hurt them but still, a waste to let go of such a valuable asset.

 

[pb]

I guess it happens all the time, assets getting lost in the acquisition/merger processes.

There was a decades-old company in Poland named Star, which produced trucks in Starachowice, it has been acquired by MAN and they redirected the old domain star.pl to a wikipedia page about Star (quite an interesting move btw), but this year they forgot to renew and it started expiring, though it got reactivated half-way through.

But I've seen it lots of times, domains getting dropped after merger or rebranding. One time I caught such a domain and a few years(!) later I got an e-mail from the new owner of the company previously owning the domain asking me how to access the domain because they lost the login details...

 

[TheWatcher]

Paa is "legs" in many Philippine languages/dialects

Correction.
Paa is Feet, Legs is Hita

 

[pb]

Correction.
Paa is Feet, Legs is Hita

Interestingly, pää is 'head' in Finnish.