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Picture This: Yahoo Finally Takes Control Of Flicker.com For Flickr
As one of the most popular social sites on the planet, Flickr is also undoubtedly one of the most popular misspelled domains. Pronounced "Flicker," Flickr decided to be all Web 2.0-cutesy with its name back in the day. That's fine, except when someone else owns the Flicker.com domain. Yahoo, which bought Flickr in 2005, has finally done something about that -- obtaining Flicker.com. As we noted ...
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Adam what are your thoughts on this? I just thought geez this is ridiculous. The owner first turn down the $600K offer
and now he loses the domain in a lawsuit? How can yahoo win the lawsuit, didn't the owner own the domain before
Flickr was founded? Unless he was using the domain with photo sharing keywords which I am not aware of since I never
visited Flicker.com ever once.
Last edited by CamMK27; 07-01-2010 at 11:11 AM.
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