Google acquired WIMM Labs a maker of “smart watches” last year according to TechCrunch.com and CNET.com
“Google quietly snapped up Los Altos, Calif.-based WIMM Labs last year .
WIMM Labs not only gives Google the talent and technology to build a smartwatch, but actually an Android-based app platform tailored for consumers’ wrists.”
What neither publication picked up on, is that not only did Google get some technology by buying WIMM to help its own smart watch efforts, it also got the ownership of the category killer domain name SmartWatch.com which WIMM owns.
The domain name is showing brand protection company MarkMonitor as the registrant of smartwatch.com, but clearly according to screenshots.com WIMM owned this domain and now Google owns it:
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so … we will soon see a GoogleWat.ch … 🙂
Nice find, @ MHB!!! Future trend . . . 😉
The smartwatch market is heating up. Samsung is about to annouce its Galaxy Gear. Pebble and Hot Watch have done phenomenal on crowdfunding platforms. With a goal of one hundred thousand dollars, Pebble is the most successful crowdfunding project, with pledges of over $10 million. Hotwatch raised over $500,000 in five weeks. Crowdfunding is like the public casting its vote, its consumer dollar.
looked to see if “smartwatch” was avail in any other extensions; all taken.
You noted WIMM owns SmartWatch.com in a previous post:
If Apple Plans On Naming Its Smart Watch the iWatch, Anything.com Is Going To Be Happy
http://www.thedomains.com/2013/02/11/if-apple-plans-on-naming-its-smart-watch-the-iwatch-anything-com-is-going-to-be-happy
I was wondering who owns iwatch.com! Many trademark applications on iwatch, such as a wearable device for medical purposes . . .
Galaxy Gear announced today takes top spot on Techmeme.com:
Smart Glasses will will be more desirable in my opinion, they bring something new to the table…….a 3 foot wide projected screen in front of your eye…..
Smart Watches have even smaller screens than Smart Phones and will be a lot harder to use for folk with BIG fingers….
Rick has struck more than gold with SmartGlasses.com
Cheers