Alibaba Group secured a favorable UDRP dispute ruling ordering the transfer of the domains Alibaba.ai and Tmall.ai after an investor bought Alibaba.ai for $3,333 and relisted it for $33,333.

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        "excerpt": "Listing it for sale without anything on it was not a smart move. At least make it seem like Ali Baba was the intent instead of (clearly) looking to extort money from Alibaba",
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        "author": "Killahbeez",
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curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/9d87d420-076b-5fa5-aafd-a7221715e0b8 \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"

curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"alibabagroup.com","limit":20}'