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Ah, the poetics of domain names. The meaning of a domain name depends on how you scan it:

There are other classic mispronounced domain names. One is the site WhoRepresents.com, with the unfortunate alternate enunciation of WhorePresents.com. But, since its in the performing artist arena, maybe its not just a misnomer. Another is TherapistFinder.com, for those looking for California marriage and family therapists. Unfortunately, the wrong clientele might stumble upon the site as TheRapistFinder.com. And then there is PenIsland.net, where you can buy custom pens.

Hilarious Domain Name Mispronunciations

Let’s just take a quick glimpse at what we’ve done so far:

We’ve used www.wehavethem.com , www.DeletedDomains.com or www.namewinner.com to locate names that are about to expire or have expired. We’ve located consumer site names with a large amount of traffic in the past month. We’ve grabbed them either personally or using an automated grabber to ensure we get the names we want.

That whole process has taken you less then an hour. Just a quick search to locate a name and then register it. Easy. (incidentally if you are confident that a name you have purchased is valuable, it may be worthwhile securing the .com, .co.uk, .net,.org, .info forms of the name as well. That way no one can undercut you by bofering it cheaper. And chances are the buyer will want all five names. That means FIVE TIMES THE PROFIT!

Now it’s time for the real exciting bit. Selling the name.

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Author: Lois S.

You go to work every day at the store you own, and one morning, your key to the door doesn’t work. You look in the window, and the display items have changed. A stranger is behind the counter. But when you call the police, they can’t do anything because the company papers now indicate that the store belongs to the stranger.

The above scenario isn’t likely to happen with a bricks-and-mortar store. Because of insecurities in the domain registration system, however, information highwaymen could take over your online business.

As with identity theft, domain thieves steal your identity — the identity used to register and configure your domain name. After that, your website, your email, your online business, and possibly your reputation are theirs.

Domain names at risk of theft

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Domain Name Scams: Have You Fallen for One?

Author: Scott Karlo

Have you received information regarding your domain name through postal mail? Did you receive numerous invoices regarding your domain name? Ever been stuck in a contract for well over a year? If any of the above apply to you, you may have fallen for a domain name scam.

Domain name scams occur when a domain name registrar sends you and “invoice” to renew your domain registration, but it really is an agreement to switch to their services.

Scott Karlo, founder of Internet Know How (IKH), LLC, offers these helpful tips on how prevent your company from falling for domain name scams.

Prevent Domain Name Scams by:

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Author: Stanley Spencer

A very important question arises in the early stages of development of a web site – what would be the most appropriate domain name? Domain names are representative of the address for a web site, and there is a rising trend of incidents of disputes over domain name registration with increased usage of Internet.

There are numerous factors that have led to a crisis of domain registration disputes and this, in turn, has led to a rapid increase in the reported cases of infringement of domain names. Several companies have taken legal action against other companies or individuals over alleged copyright violation on the domain names.

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Author: Emma Kalson – littlefishwebdesign.com

Cybersquatting – The Problem

Cybersquatting, or registering a domain name in bad faith (usually a variation or mis-spelling of your domain name) an cause untold damage to a company and is a major problem on the Internet, where registering a domain is a quick and automated process. Legal recourse is costly and time-consuming and not always effective. Cybersquatting can occur in various guises:

1. Competitors – Any potential customer of yours getting your domain name wrong ends up as a customer of theirs!

2. Unhappy customers and (ex-) employees – All their complaints about you get posted, whether they are justified or not.

3. Opportunists – They set up pages that redirect you, or affiliate pages, often linked to pornography, in order to make money or to spread viruses. Other opportunists may try and sell these similar domains back to you at vastly inflated prices.

Cybersquatting – The Solution

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Author: Syd Johnson

An effective domain name can help to brand your site. It can also communicate to your customers the types of products you sell online. An easy to remember domain that describes your services should be the goal of every site owner. Here are some techniques that you can use to create the best domain name for your company.

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What is Domain Name Backordering? Watch Out For This One!

Author: Martin Lemieux

Domain names are the hottest net-real-estate on the internet. It’s no wonder services like: “Domain Name Backordering” is available to the public. Can someone really backorder your domain right from underneath you? Guess again…

So what is Domain Name Backordering?

This is a service that allows anybody on the internet to reserve a domain name if and when it goes up for sale! This doesn’t seem harmful does it? Guess again…

Companies all over the internet are ordering this service for website url’s that seem to be popular! What if by chance you just happen to forget to re-order your domain name? Let’s say that you go on vacation and neglect to check your emails that are now telling you to renew your domain name? In this case, another company on the other side of the planet sees the fact that your domain name is soon up for grabs, so they order a backorder on your domain name and simply wait to see what you do with it.

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Internet Domain Registration – Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions on Domain Name Registration

Author: John Leong

Here are the top ten most frequently asked questions regarding on Internet domain name registration:

Q1. Which characters are allowed in Internet domain names?

A: For normal ASCII domain names, the letters a-z, the numbers 0-9, and one special character, the hyphen or dash “-”. Note that domains cannot start or end with a hyphen. For the new tested IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names), the full range of Unicode characters are available. This allows nearly all of the languages on the planet to be represented within domain names, including Thai, Arabic, Lao, Hebrew, French, German etc.

Q2. How many characters can a Internet domain name have?

A: Generic domains (gTLDs) can have 63 characters in the second level, plus the top level domain, .com, .net etc.

Q3. How long can I register a Internet domain name for?

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Dead Domains – find out How to give them a Good Send Off

Author: E Margaret MacGillivray

How many times have you bookmarked a web site and, months later, gone back to find that the original content has disappeared and the new web site appears to be a directory of links? How frustrating is that! Have you stopped and considered why this is happening? If you were the owner of the domain name, how annoyed were you to find that your domain is live and well and earning someone else some money when you couldn’t make an honest dollar from your old web site?

There are several things which you ought to know about your domain name registration. While you pay for the annual renewal of the registration, and especially if you have “locked” your domain name, it is yours. However, when you don’t renew the name with your registrar, it goes through a protection scheme of up to 75 days when you can renew the registration and add the domain name back into your portfolio. After that, it’s open hunting season for expired domain names, particularly those with web traffic.

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