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Dell Suit Reveals Lucrative Domain Name Trade

Posted by kdawson on from the pennies-times-millions dept.

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.

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  1. Re:dellbatterogram.com by provigilman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What a coincidence, I did his girlfriend!

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  2. Re:Ironic? by misleb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.


    It just boggles my mind that people wouldn't want to take that easy step of blocking ads. The difference it makes in my browsing experience is just astounding.

    Sorry to annoy you, Coward. But I'm going to keep on commenting any time someone complains about annoying advertising. I don't care if it makes me the d-bag. If I can get one person to try Adblock, I've positively impacted someone else's life. And that is what matters to me.

    -matthew
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