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Dell Suit Reveals Lucrative Domain Name Trade
alphadogg writes "A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links. In October, Dell sued a group of domain registrars, alleging the companies bought more than 1,100 domain names with trademark-infringing characteristics, such as 'dellbatterrogram.com' in order to put advertising links on the pages. The practice, known as typosquatting, is illegal. Dell alleges that the group of defendants, mostly registered offshore, control over a million domain names and have used over 64 million." The article also mentions Google's love-hate relationship with such shady advertising practices.
You don't use adblock?
Moron.
Ad hominem? Yes. But, only morons *don't* use adblock.
Making laws based on opinions that stem up from false informations leads to witch hunts.
What a coincidence. I did the same thing to your girlfriend.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Oh my god, shut the fuck up. Every single time anybody on the Internet mentions an advertisement some d-bag has to pipe in with LOL WHAT ADS??? HUH I DONT UNDERSTAND OH LOLOLLLLLLLL I HAVE ADBLOCK GEE WHIZ. Nobody is impressed that you guys have figured out how to use AdBlock.