On the droplist for the coming days a curious find was brought to our attention – the domain viagra.org, previously owned by Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that owns the brand is going to be deleted within the coming days. The interesting fact is that the domain actually only expires in August. Now we checked the list of deleting names and found additional names containing the Pfizer (52) and Viagra (13) brands being deleted on exactly the same date.

It seems that Pfizer may have decided not to keep protecting any of their brand names in the .ORG domain, similar to the way Ad Age suggested that companies are wary of having to protect their brand names across a lage number of new TLDs. It is obvious though that at least some of the names will be picked up after the drop, and possibly pursued again by the company’s lawyers.

Domain Name Wire had recently reported about a similar case, where the company Silicon Labs dropped their main domain name, SiliconLabs.com after it expired.

For obvious reasons we do not recommend to purchase these domains.