domain theft Archives - Webnames Blog Domains, Hosting, SSL and Ideas for businesses to succeed online Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:04:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 First Ever Arrest Made For Domain Theft https://blog.webnames.ca/arrest-made-for-domain-theft/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:08:42 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2009/08/arrest-made-for-domain-theft/ It’s a known fact that the domain name industry for the most part is like the wild west, few rules, no enforcement and cattle rustlers everywhere you look.  Well there’s some good news on that front.  There seems to be a new sheriff in town who’s not afraid of the bandits. In 2005 some big…

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]]> Susan Boyle’s Got Talent, But Not Her Domain Name https://blog.webnames.ca/susan-boyles-got-talent-but-no/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:22:22 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2009/04/susan-boyles-got-talent-but-no/ 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…

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