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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.
Yes, I think it is pretty ironic that the very article the summary is linked to is infested with crappy ads.
My humor is probably your flamebait
Yeah, talk about typos. I had one time tried to say "Could you hand me salt?" to my girlfriend, but by mistake I said "You stupid b**ch".
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Could you hand me salt?
Sweet. I have a company named Delm, now I can sue this "dell" company for typosquatting my site for millions.
I mean, when I go to dell.com I'm bombarded with ads.
Wow, what a URL. I wonder if heydellpleasesendmeabatterymineblewupkthxbye.com is taken.
:-)
OTOH, I guess they didn't want a big red "Click here for information about exploding Dell batteries" link on the homepage.
Though they could have just buried it a bit: Products -> Home and Home Office -> Parts and Accessories -> Batteries -> Exploding *click*
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