just an fyi: Cyber-squatting of "Pelicanpart dot com"

john70t · 02-15-2011, 12:44 AM

Typed in the incomplete web address, forgot the plural, and got a junk advertisment page linking to JCWhitney, Corvettes, VW, and BMW's.

How low can one get?

slodave · slodave's Garage

Common practice these days.

UconnTim97 · UconnTim97's Garage

Incorrectly type in most online stores/ sites and that happens. I wonder how much profit there is in this practice?

slakjaw · 02-15-2011, 06:42 AM

I recently went to register a domain name. It was going to be the same as my @flicker and some company had already registered it. They were offering to sell it for 69.99 I declined.

kaisen · 02-15-2011, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by slakjaw

I recently went to register a domain name. It was going to be the same as my @flicker and some company had already registered it. They were offering to sell it for 69.99 I declined.

$69.99 for seemeinmybananahammock dot com is a pretty good deal

scottmandue · 02-15-2011, 08:11 AM

I once typed ebat instead of ebay... got a porn site... I was at work... that was a fast click.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

Back in the stone ages of the internet (before Google) or any real search engine I knew that domain names were usually easy to guess. I was showing that to the owner of the company. We were looking for a new hard drive so I typed in harddrive.com and it was a gay porn site. This was the days of dial-up so images took forever to load.

I finally found Alta Vista as a search site.

Google sure makes life easier. The young-uns now days have no idea how tough it was back in the day. Now get off my grass.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

I remember hearing about a classmate looking for some info on the pres and going to whitehouse dot com..... Definitely not a government website.....

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

My favorite Google search problem story is from my wife. We have a long haired Daschund and my wife was looking for a dog grooming comb called a stripping comb. When she typed in stripping comb into Google nothing about grooming combs were found.

rcooled · 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by slakjaw

I recently went to register a domain name. It was going to be the same as my @flicker and some company had already registered it. They were offering to sell it for 69.99 I declined.

My FIL registered a domain name several years ago that was just his initials. No...it wasn't JBL or KFC or anything like that and he wasn't just squatting on it. Someone else wanted it so bad that they paid him $15K for it!

EarlyPorsche · 02-15-2011, 09:43 AM

Well Dicks Sporting Goods' website isn't what I thought it was at first.

HardDrive · 02-15-2011, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by kaisen

$69.99 for seemeinmybananahammock dot com is a pretty good deal smilewavy

lol.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

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Originally Posted by rcooled

My FIL registered a domain name several years ago that was just his initials. No...it wasn't JBL or KFC or anything like that and he wasn't just squatting on it. Someone else wanted it so bad that they paid him $15K for it!

I remember the story about some dude that first registered McDonalds. That was his last name and he had a real web site about his family. The burger folks wanted it real bad but the guy said he did not want money.

He had McDonalds build a neighborhood playground for kids for the domain.

cstreit · cstreit's Garage

Worse than cyber-squatting in my mind... Some companies are trolling domain name searches and than automatically registering them when they cross a threshold. We had this happen a few weeks ago.

Did a few searches for a very specific domain name on NetworkSolutions.com. It wasn't a domain that someone would have registered generically. 24 hours later it was registered under an anonymous domain company.