Typo squatting can be quite a lucrative business. Lucrative that is until you lose your domains via a WIPO ruling. One squatter had three typos of amazon.com: amazoh.com, qmqzon.com and smszon.com As is often the case with such practices the registrant had already been subject to a number of previous WIPO hearings... Don't they ever learn? Of course the question I should be … [Read more...] about Typo Squatters Lose
Domains & DNS
How Not To Do PR
PR is probably a combination of black art, science and luck. However no matter how good your PR machine is it can all fall apart at the seams if your representatives don't know how to handle themselves in public If you take the now infamous web 2.0 fiasco as an example to illustrate this. One of O'Reilly's related companies hold a mark of some kind. It's in their interest to … [Read more...] about How Not To Do PR
Wiseowl.ie WIPO Ruling
The WIPO ruling on wiseowl.ie has been published. The panelist's decision explains why it is felt that the registration was in bad faith and awards the domain to the complainants. You can read the full text for an in depth explanation … [Read more...] about Wiseowl.ie WIPO Ruling
What’s the weirdest domain you own?
I register a lot of domains for different purposes. Sometimes it's simply a case of checking if something works or not.. In the process I've ended up with some really odd domains.. so I was wondering, What's the weirdest or strangest domain you own? … [Read more...] about What’s the weirdest domain you own?
ccTLD and other non gTLD numbers …
The last week has seen some interesting news in the world of regional domains. Eurid's latest statistics show that they will hit the 2 million domain mark very soon. Of course there's no easy way to see how many of them are actually valid and what's more worrying is the registry's attitude towards this. AFNIC, the French registry, published an initial report of their … [Read more...] about ccTLD and other non gTLD numbers …