Lapsed domain names--beware

Charles P. Hobbs chhobbs at cdrewu.edu
Mon Sep 24 12:48:22 EDT 2001


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"PHILADEPHIA -- When the folks at Wyndmoor, Pa.-based Irish Edition
found the Web address for their 15,000-circulation monthly cultural
newspaper taken over by a porn site, they scrambled to find out what
had happened.

They discovered this: There is a growing market for discarded dot-com
domain names, and online opportunists had purchased the
newspaper's address last month after Irish Edition had inadvertently let
 its own dot-com claim lapse."

http://www.dailynews.com/business/articles/0901/24/biz01.asp

--
Charles P. Hobbs
King Drew Health Science Library
http://www.cdrewu.edu/kdhsl




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