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Well, then respectfully, you're wrong. <br>
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Someone types my domain.ca instead of .com because of my brand. They
see a page full of insurance ads and either click on the ads, or figure
I've gone out of business. Either way the squatter took business from
me.<br>
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Ignoring this for idealogical reasons are fine for LUG's. But those
reasons don't work when it comes to operating a business. Which is why
I noted that it's not worth the effort for the lug to corner all it's
variations - but suggesting that the rest of the world follow this
approach is very bad advice.<br>
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Andrew Kohlsmith (Mailing List Account) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On December 22, 2009 09:03:07 pm Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
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<pre wrap="">One is not sufficient. I've got a squatter sitting on the .ca of my
company name. His response when I asked about negotiating a sale was
profane. If you want to protect a name, you've got to get everything.
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I very strongly DISagree with you on this. If you've got a brand, the
squatters can have all the other ones they want. It's this huge land grab that
is making the web a steaming pile in the first place.
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<pre wrap="">People can and will end up at variations of your domain name - there
are people using automated and cloaked methods to see what domains
you're registering for no other reason than to grab that domain name
variation. And the only recourse to get that traffic back is
legal/expensive.
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Sadly this is the case today. I still think that paying $100/yr for a dozen
domains is a ridiculous countermeasure.
-A.
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