Picture This: Yahoo Finally Takes Control Of Flicker.com For Flickr

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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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[CamMK27]

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.