Posts Tagged ‘Domain Names’

Harvard University researchers in a recent study, estimate that Google could be making $497million a year from the practice known as ‘typosquatting’ according to ZDNet How does typosquatting work? Typosquatters register domain names, usually a well-established trade mark, in bad faith to gain a commercial advantage. This usually involves holding the domains in a portfolio [...]

When I wrote the introduction to my proposed new book in early November Why Web 2.0 Brand Protection Requires Online Brand Promotion, I hoped to publish this chapter shortly afterwards.

Web projects are riddled with Intellectual Property Rights issues.  These have a long term impact on the future of the business.  Awareness of online branding, search engines, copyright law and the technicalities involved in specifying a web presence are some of the key issues to consider. An unregulated web means anyone can and does set [...]

As a result of a recent decision against Google in the USA, a new weapon should be considered by  trademark owners like Microsoft in the battle against cybersquatters.  If misspellings or other versions of trademarks are registered as domain names by third parties who are earning click revenue from Google’s adsense program,  suing Google may [...]

In recent years, a number of comparative websites have appeared online in which consumers can compare prices of a number of businesses without the need to search individual websites. Websites such as Expedia use special web crawling software which accesses information from various websites in order to obtain information – key to the consumer being [...]

Domain names are always an important part of any business. For web based businesses they are sometimes a lifeline. So, what do you do if you do not own a domain name you want? One of the available options is to use a domain drop catching service. This involves registering your interest with a service [...]