Mega credit card company Visa® secretly acquired the single letter domain name V.me from the registry (likely through the .me Development Program) around October 2011 but whois records remained behind the generic DnStinations Inc. which is used by brand protection company MarkMonitor. Late yesterday, Visa figured it was time to reveal they acquired the domain [...]

Citi® has launched "ThankYou" cards! So why am I writing about them? Because they are sub-domain happy and they didn’t cover important bases they should have. In the Citi Thank You Card TV ad that I saw, Citi used the sub-domain name thankyoucard.citi.com Here lies the problem, for some reason, when a sub-domain name is [...]

American Express® has launched TheSocialCurrency.com which appears to work off of the Membership Rewards® program. The domain grabbed my eye as I had reported on April 28, 2011 that American Express appeared to had purchased SocialCurrency.com from Milkshake Media in my DotWeekly Discovery series. American Express states: "Membership Rewards® points are a social currency that [...]