Q&A: Cybersquatters Bank On A Typo

**Dave Zan** · 04-18-2007, 09:07 PM

Found this:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...od.html?page=1

Doesn't look complete to me. Ron?

**Adam Dicker** · 04-18-2007, 09:25 PM

A good read, Ron is always a good read.

-=DCG=-

**BidNo** · 04-18-2007, 10:55 PM

Yes Dave, thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
BidNo

**RustyK** · 04-18-2007, 11:04 PM

Thanks for the info Dave. And to hear that all this time I thought a it was a person just holding on to domain names and doing nothing with it, but it seems to be a trademark thing.

**Duke** · 04-19-2007, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by Dave Zan

Found this:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...od.html?page=1

Doesn't look complete to me. Ron?

Only a small portion of what we talked about was used and the article did seem to end abruptly. This is common because many publications have a space limitation and tell their writers to turn in a certain number of words, so the surface is barely skimmed on most subject matter. For the same reason, there is also a lot of "paraphrasing" in an article like this in which the writer distills the gist of what was said into a few passages. That often results in important background information being left out and what was actually said getting a bit distorted and in some cases even lost. Having said that (and knowing from the start that this goes with the territory), I felt this writer had an open mind on this subject and did not inject any personal biases into his story. That is rare when domains are the topic. The web is siphoning advertisers and readers away from print so most publications try to portray the online world in as bad a light as they possibly can. Patrick played it straight and I appreciate that.