The famous Sears Tower in Chicgao has been renamed the Willis Tower. Although Sears Roebuck and Co moved out in 1992, the building has held the "Sears Tower" name until the London based insurance broker Willis Group Holdings secured the naming rights to the building.
The naming change was revealed today.
Not only is the physical name on the building changing, so is the virtual real estate location.
SearsTower.com now forwards to WillisTower.com .
The SearsTower.com domain name was first registered back on July 15, 1997 ( 5 years After the Sears Roebuck Co moved out) and 12 years, 1 day since that domain registration, the new Willis Tower name was revealed today.
According to whois history records, CB Richard Ellis was the past owner of SearsTower.com at least until 12-16-2008 as the domain then went into privacy registration.
According to Compete.com, SearsTower.com get’s about 14,000 monthly unique visitors.
WillisTower.com was created on 2-4-2009 and registered for 1 year at this point at Godaddy.com . The .com, .net and .org were also registered 2-4-2009.
WillisTower.net & WillisTower.org both forward to WillisTower.com .
However, WillisTower.info goes to a standard Godaddy parking page but that domain name was created 3-9-2009 and appears to be owned by a Cascade Lab LLC. WillisTower.biz forward to Facebook.com? With the .biz being created on 3-12-2009 and privacty protection on the registration.
WillisTower.us is a website (with Adsense) talking about the name change. This domain was created 3-12-2009 and according to whois is owned by A-Interactive of CA.
American Landmark Properties owns the building.
