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Chinese Scaring Domain Owners to Buy More Domains

By KVNPark | Published: September 17, 2009

Never heard of this one (from Tech Republic) before.
Some Chinese companies are using a scare tactic to force domain owners to buy .cn domains. An email is sent out to the domain owner telling her some other party is trying to register a domain name very close to her own.
We talked about “cybersquatting… Continue reading” before, and these emails are in the form of

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Nike.cm?

By KVNPark | Published: July 28, 2009

Have you ever made a typo and entered “.cm” instead of “.com”? It is one of common typos people make when entering a URL into the address bar of your browser. Dot-cm is actually the country code for Cameroon. But cybersquatters are registering these domains with ill-intentions.
Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection… Continue reading

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