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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
Jackson. |
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Is Twittersquatting the new Cybersquatting?
An
article published at Pingdom.com
today says it is and they have some interesting facts to
back up that assertion. A lot of companies are now using
the fast growing microblogging site Twitter.com
to market their products and |
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services
(many in the domain industry also use it to post news
and information, including me under the user ID dnjournal). With
tens of millions of users on Twitter (and even
more on Facebook), many believe that getting your
company name as a user ID on those social networks could
end up being almost as important as having your .com
domain name. While a number of domainers were
quick to secure their Twitter names most corporations
haven't, including the ones that should know better,
tech companies. |
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Pingdom
found that two-thirds of the top 100
tech brand names were either still available
as Twitter User ID's, or worse, are in the hands
of someone other than the companies that own the
brands. I have already see this within our own
industry. When a user named imonetize
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following me at
Twitter I assumed it was the monetization
company of that name owned by Jerry
Nolte. Instead it turned out to be someone
who registered that name so they could post
complaints about the company (another good
reason why you should lock up you business name
there before someone uses your own brand against
you).
Pingdom found that
10 of the names of the world’s 100 biggest,
most knowledgeable IT companies were still
not registered as of this month (however
Pingdom was nice enough to notify the companies
about that). 15 accounts using famous tech
brands were clearly in the hands of individuals
rather than the company. 42 accounts were
occupied by anonymous users, presumably
individuals, and only 33 of the 100 accounts
seemed to be used by the company in question.
That is what is known as a wakeup call! |
A couple of
other notes as we head into the weekend. The catalog
has been released for the live domain
auction at next week's GeoDomain
Expo in San Diego. You can even start
bidding now if you wish. The live event will be staged
on Saturday, April 25 from 5pm-6:30pm
(Pacific Time).
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The Internet
Commerce Association today joined in
a Friend-of-the-Court brief filed with
the Kentucky Supreme Court urging it to
uphold the decision of the Court of Appeals that
domain names are not “gambling devices”
subject to seizure under Kentucky law. |
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The
full
story on the ICA website notes
"The brief responds to an appeal filed by
the Commonwealth of Kentucky after it lost at
the Court of Appeals level. Kentucky’s 2008 seizure
of gambling site domains sent shock waves
through the domain name investment and
development community because, if permitted by
the courts, it would have established an extremely
dangerous precedent by which any government
entity could claim jurisdiction over a domain
name simply because its website could be viewed
from within its borders, and then attempt to
seize the domain name without advance notice or
due process." |
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(Posted
April
17, 2009) |
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