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Cybersquatting Slime Bags: Amazon Fights Back and My Tips To Prevent
An entire industry of Cybersquatters exists today. These slime bags are too lazy to build their own sites, are legally, morally, and ethically challenged. Rather, they choose to leach off registered Trademarks with their pervasive “typo” domains and often use redirects to their own low life sites. Many of these sites also use Affiliate Programs to earn money so these myopic Networks who are only interested in a quick buck effectively become “enablers” with these cyber thieves. In this installment I present a real world case and tips to prevent this action.
I just stole your domain name. It was easy!
Every month thousands of domain names are stolen. Often, these are developed sites which represent years of work. The criminals who do this can often be hired by anyone and returning the domain name to the real owner can takes weeks. Learn how these criminals work and what you can do to prevent this.