Comments on: “Why I Typosquatted & Why It Should Be Legal”

By: Keep It Legal - Topic Research, Trends and Surveys

Keep It Legal - Topic Research, Trends and Surveys — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:35:27 +0000

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By: MarkP

MarkP — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:36:08 +0000

@John – the company already exists: http://www.markmonitor.com/

By: MHB

MHB — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:35:28 +0000

John

I think he biggest error is continuing on this path.

Its one thing to do it once and put up the page like you suggest aimed at Microsoft but after they sue you and you lose, then you do it again to the airlines and you lose again then do it again to Dell, well you get the idea.

You only get a first chance once

By: John Humphrey

John Humphrey — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:29:59 +0000

Thing is, if you watch the drop at all you know how many valuable TM-related names are out there. It’s kind of an obvious jump to imagine that someone could turn finding them into a service. Thinking about it, after reading Alf’s story, I was wondering how he might have done if instead of just holding the names, he’d built a single page announcing his intention to hand them over. Something like:

Hello Microsoft!
As a domain marketing consultant, I specialize in helping companies locate and acquire valuable ‘typo’ domains related to their Intellectual Property. This domain a gift to you, by which to serve as an introduction. Please contact me at…

Could that have served his purpose, or do you think they’d have sent the lawyers after him anyway?
He definitely screwed up when he later parked them and then redirected them to his exercise equipment business. Now the lawyers want to ‘make an example’ of him and it turns out he’s got something to lose, including at least, sauna.com
But check out the comments–people HATE this guy and a lot of them would lump us all into the same category.

By: M. Menius

M. Menius — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:40:42 +0000

Mike – I met a young tech savvy guy who said there is actually a cottage industry around hacking into a company’s servers, and then approaching the company for a job based on telling them what you did … and then helping them upgrade their technology to avoid future hacks.

This reminds me of Alf’s angle. Can you imagine having your home burglarized, and upon arriving home, the criminal pops out and asks you to hire him so he can help you install a new alarm system?

By: James

James — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:13:24 +0000

Who’s going to reg domainnamesquating.com? Oh the irony….

By: BreakingNewsBlog.us

BreakingNewsBlog.us — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:22:16 +0000

maybe, it could be legal if used only to show advertising, like in parked domain, but NOT to promote or sell products and services similar to the original website/domain

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