[WEB4LIB] Lapsed domain names--beware

[Dan Lester]

Once again, we see a fine example of something run by amateurs instead
of IT professionals.  Or, management professionals.

As I've reported here before, there are tons of these cases, and in
every one of them I've seen it has been because of lax organization
and management.  They don't lapse instantly without warning, any more
than your MasterCard does.

dan

Monday, September 24, 2001, 10:57:23 AM, you wrote:

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

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


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