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Typosquatting is Big Business – $497 Million/Year According to Recent Study

Posted on March 17, 2010August 25, 2014 by

Typosquatting is the practice of intentionally registering domain names that are misspellings of website addresses and profiting from it by trying to sell the name, or capitalizing on its traffic through Google ads and/or selling products/services not related to the original brand. Many large businesses protect their brands by registering possible misspellings of their trademarks…

Susan Boyle’s Got Talent, But Not Her Domain Name

Posted on April 20, 2009October 9, 2015 by

Julianna

Last year we blogged about how Bradgelina beat cybersquaters to the punch by proactively registering variations of their newborn twins’ names as domains. Unfortunately for newly famous songbird Susan Boyle, cyberquatters got to susanboyle.co.uk first. The name of the Britain’s Got Talent star was registered by someone else on April 10 2009, one day before her…

The Debate About Cybersquatting and dot-TEL

Posted on November 7, 2008October 9, 2015 by

Julianna

The Register.co.uk published an article last week about how dot-tel will be unattractive to cybersquatters because it does not host websites, only contact information that will be sent to Internet-enabled devices. Cyberquatters make money by placing pay-per-click advertisements on web pages that are set up on domain names which visitors assume belong to a legitimate organization.…