CSC Global - www.cscglobal.com

mdb · Oct 15, 2011

CSC - www.cscglobal.com

With respect to domain names, does anyone know:

1. If they're in the business of buying brandable domain names ahead of time to "protect" companies' interests, or

2. Are they contracted by a third party to use their expertise to acquire domains the third party is interested in securing.

3. Both

Thanks in advance for any input.

Mike

Borris · Oct 16, 2011

They are similar to markmonitor.com and will be contracted by CompanyX or BrandX to look after their trademark issues amongst other things and this includes buying domains ahead of time or pursuing infringements to recover domains.

Companies like these will have there own Nominet TAG as well being .com, etc registrars in order to protect there customers at the registrar level.

mdb · Oct 17, 2011

Thanks Borris...

So you're pretty certain they wouldn't buy up domains in the hopes that CompanyX / BrandX wouldn't want them down the road? Obviously if they bought domains and then tried to sell them to a third-party that have a claim (legal or not) to them, it would smack of bad faith.

My assumptions on the company were the same as yours except I have noticed some weird registrations. The companies they've seemingly tried to "protect", I don't know as if they would use a company like CSC? That leads me to think there is some speculation taking place but I could be wrong. They seem to be managing 150k+ domains so the questionable domain is sure to show up.

If anyone has had any experience dealing with them please pm me. Thanks

Borris · Oct 17, 2011

Yes I am sure, they are a large legitimate brand protection company. Check out the whois of these well known brands.

cnn.co.uk
att.co.uk
egg.co.uk

Hope this helps I very much doubt they speculate. Without knowing the specific weird domain you mentioned there are a number of reasons such as future products, future trademarks, future brands, acquisitions, merges, typos etc etc.

mdb · Oct 17, 2011

I know they're a legit operation - I've seen other examples where they've been used - thanks for those you've given.

The "weird domains" may have been bought but not followed through on. What I'm saying is they weren't transferred to the third party and as they were acquired sometime ago I doubt they will be. I also doubt they were purchased as a "future product / trademark" as well. Maybe the third party didn't want to pay their bill? That's the reason why I wondered if they speculated too... I definitely agree that they're contracted by other businesses though to "take care" of their online profile.

Do you mind me asking if you've had any specific dealings with them? PM if you need to.

Thanks again