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google Waging war against cybersquatting - CNET News.com

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What I find interesting about this article is the words "faudulent use of domain names" is linked to an article by a Doug Isenberg who casually links domain speculation to cybersquatting. Last time I looked there was a distinction to reputable domaining businesses and cybersquatters. Now we're being painted by the same brush. This is partly our own fault for our acceptance of cybersquatters and trademark infringements within our domaining community.
 

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domaining started out as cybersquatting..this is reality.
 

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You know if you lock your door before you leave your home, there is less chance of someone breaking in, if at all somebody succeeds in breaking in 99% chance is that whoever broke in is a professional thief, easy to catch for the police as they might have some evidence and record against them.

Likewise as the technology is so Hi-Tech and people are going to Space traveling to and fro like how we fly from Toronto to New York often, why is that ICANN not getting registry operators to develop a system that for most part deter or stop people from registering possible typos of existing registrations( An automated system that checks the domain being searched for and if it feels it is a possible typo, disallow registration and advices the Person trying to register to contact the registrar and discuss what can be done next)

If some thing of the above kind is there future cybersquatting can be stopped and controlled. It is like farmers using pesticides, are the pests gone for ever? they have to use the same pesticides next season, or even more powerful and new ones as the pests grown resistant to the old pesticide. Please remember the fact that Pests are not gone and they will not be able to get rid of them completely in future.

Likewise cybersquatting can be controlled with right technology at root level, but might not be eliminated completely.

I hope who ever reading this not to feel this post like "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" :) there are serious possibilities to curb cybersquatting, instead of just whining about it.
 

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Google is one of the biggest hypocrite on the web. Talk about 'Do No Evil'. Google has milked millions of advertising dollars from typosquatters allowing them to park with 'Adsense for domains' and paying those publishers higher than normal share of click income simply because those publishers qualified for greater than 750,000 page views per month.

Typosqatting will be hard to stop. Who is to say which among these domains is a Typo

Justine.com or Justin.com

There are thousands of these examples. Yes, some are blatant typosqats. If Icann was my employee, I'd fire them in a heart beat.
 

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how about all they domains that are typed-in a browser, but go to Google search or MSN search, when they haven't been registered or are mis-spelled.

why should they be able to convert that traffic with ad pages?

why should any claimant just be able to "get" a domain from someone without paying compensation, when they didn't register or backorder it?


:rolleyes:


imo....
 
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