news Two years after starting service in Prague, UBER picks up UBER.CZ

[Arpit131]

It looks like Uber acquired the domain Uber.cz. The domain is now registered at Mark Monitor. Almost two years to date that the service became available in Prague, the first city in central and eastern Europe where the Uber car hire service is available.

The domain was owned by Internet CZ since 2008.

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[RTM]

Be interested in what they paid ☺ my guess, mid to high 5 figures unless through a blind / proxy broker...

 

[Jman92]

Be interested in what they paid ☺ my guess, mid to high 5 figures unless through a blind / proxy broker...

isn't uber trademarked? why do they have to pay end user money to get the domain?

 

[RTM]

isn't uber trademarked? why do they have to pay end user money to get the domain?

According to the the article, uber.cz was regged in 2008 well before Uber (the transportation platform) was launched or trademarked for its service...

 

[daica85]

Seem they acquired a little bit late from they settled in CZ.

 

[cdboard]

isn't uber trademarked? why do they have to pay end user money to get the domain?

uber is a very nice word. short, easy to pronounce, good meaning. it has been around a while.


uber-

denoting an outstanding or supreme example of a particular kind of person or thing.

or


Über

sometimes written uber in English language publications, is a German language word meaning "over", "above" or "across".

 

[RTM]

Seem they acquired a little bit late from they settled in CZ.

Negotiations may have taken a while in fact Uber is no stranger to negotiations given their controversy and disruptive model over traditional taxi or transportation services as a whole.

Pretty much the same story for all the other sharing economy startups (AirBNB, etc)

 

[London555]

We own one .cz but its a term that gets 5million hits a month so maybe-just maybe this is good news-time will tell.

 

[frank-germany]

Über

sometimes written uber in English language publications, is a German language word meaning "over", "above" or "across".

in this case it would mean

outstanding / superior