Forbes Magazine published a story about the women who started Sols, which has one storefront in New York and makes shoes using a 3d printer and a iPad which measures the foot and provider the information to 3d print the shoe.
It’s an amazing rags to riches story, about getting a startup off the ground, entrepreneurship, raising seed money and an example of the use of this truly game changing technology of 3d printing.
Of course part of the story, concerns domain names as well.
The company recently raised $8.5 Million and went out an acquired the domain name Sols.com up grading from Sols.co.
The domain Sols.co was originally registered in 2011 by Novy Domains LLC of Milwaukee who appears to have let the domain name drop in 2012.
The domain remain unregistered until June of 2013 when it was registered to a Joel Wishkovsky of Pennsylvania who appears to have sold it to Sols System, Inc in April 2014.
Sols.com was previously owned by Edward Fleschute of Reston Virgina who appears to have sold it in June of 2014 to Sols System.
The domain name sols.com has an original creation date of February 1996.
The oldest whois record on DomainTools.com is from 2001 when Mr. Fleschute lived in Florida and had a company called Secured Online Solutions.
Neither the sale of Sols.Co or Sols.Com seems to have been reported.
Sols.co is now being forwarded to Sols.com.
You can read the whole story at Forbes.com and suggest you do.
jose says
nice story. thanks MHB
KC says
When people can afford, they want better names, and .com is that better name.
Louise says
Nice story with a tie in to 3d – yay!