It was just a few weeks ago that Facebook filed a massive Cybersquatting lawsuit against 25 named companies and individuals & over 100 “john Doe’s” for $100K for each domain name and damages and all the money generated by the typo’s.
So yesterday I was pretty surprised to see another typo Facebopok.com sell on SnapNames.com on an expired domain name auction for $1,999.
There were actually 5 people battling it out from $1k+, with the lucky winner having the handle of “latarioni”.
The domain itself probably gets according to the Alexa.com and Compete.com under 1,000 visitors a month.
Why anyone would risk a lawsuit which can cost hundreds of thousands including attorney’s fees is well beyond me.
I notice some other Facebook typo’s all dropping within the same few days so this may not be the last one we see.
“Why anyone would risk a lawsuit which can cost hundreds of thousands”
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People may not be aware that domains are registered in THEIR NAME, at their meat-space address, using their credit card # and they have no idea. They might catch it if their credit card account is closely inspected.
With the new DNS there is no whois
The new DNS uses Electronic Wallets (keyrings)
BTW – FaceBook is ThinClient-Server so does not have a long-term future in a Peer-2-Peer Internet. Google is in the same boat.
It is interesting to see how much time has been wasted on things like UDRP and TYPOs and ID theft
hundreds of thousands is a drop in the bucket when you got people selling domains for 50k a pop – AND MORE. plus it doesn’t go to court very often. at the VERY LEAST the “squatters” will sell the domain to the rightful party for less than market value…still making a profit 😉