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I just saw the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC and she had a little segment on BruceSprinsgteen.com and Cybersquatting, I am posting what she said verbatim, it is pretty interesting. It was part of a larger story called “Former Christie appointee domain squatting”. Again these are Rachel Maddow’s words from tonights Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, they are not mine, I am not Rand Paul, lol…
“If you want more information about Bruce Springsteen’s famousness and you go to the obvious place to get that information, you go to BruceSpringsteen.com, you will not find it there, because there is nothing at BruceSpringsteen.com, because Mr. Springsteen does not own that web address.
He tried very hard to own it when he found that somebody else had registered his name as a website, he fought the case up to the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center, but he lost, and now the Official Bruce Springsteen Website is Dot Net, not BruceSpringsteen.com, but rather Dot Net, which makes you feel like your talking on a flip phone in the 1990’s when you type it in.
When you don’t ask, and you register somebody else’s domain name, what would be their internet address for their own website, that’s called Cybersquatting, theoretically you can Cybersquat someone in a nice way as in “hey I noticed you hadn’t bought the web address with your name in it, I bought it for you, here it is”. Theoretically you can Cybersquat for that nice reason, more often people are doing it for the money, hoping the person who got their name stolen will want to pay to get the use of their own name back…”
Here are the domain picks dropping on December 17th 2013:
AfterThis.com – After this I am going to the beach
AmberLove.com – It sound like something besides a girls name?
ArtisanAvenue.com – I have actually sold a few random word + avenue domains
AudioBoy.com – A short easy brandable
BachFlowerEssences.com – Commonly known as Bach Flower Remedies but essences works
CannabisProvider.com – It’s worth more today than it was a few years ago
CannabisProviders.com – Good news, you could actually run a real biz on this now
ColonHealthCleanse.com – It’s time for your colonic
DesignForSuccess.com – A nice positive sounding name
DiscountMedicalPlan.com – It’s an American thing and it’s still probably expensive
DotSurf.com – Is there a Dot Surf coming?
DragonHunters.com – I know its a game, but if you really hunt dragons? $14k estibot
FabricMagic.com – I thought it sounded nice for a fabric store, might be TM though
GreatPlacesToLive.com – This one could definitely be put to good use
iLoveCrete.com – I like I love domains, and everybody loves Crete right
jPlant.com – I am not so sure about these kind of names but I’ll list anyway
LoveLiveLife.com – Now this one just makes me feel happy
MakeYourselfBeautiful.com – I know most of you already are but somebody could use it
NetProspectors.com – This is what I am
Oloco.com – Kind of a catchy non word, unless there is an Olo Company
Pay-Advance.com – Big keywords, high CPC
SeniorHousingFinder.com – Big business and finder works pretty good with this one
Skuj.com – I think I can kind of say it
SwingersLinks.com – Lots of swinger sites to link to and they pay
TheBushes.com – I know what your thinking, yardwork
UHUJ.com – It’s a CVCV but kind of awkward
yPie.com – Because everybody loves pie that is Y
BangkokProperty.net
DailyMoney.net
ExpressFreight.net
FundMarket.net
Giftz.net
HolisticLifestyle.net
Lunchies.net
NewsSite.net
ParisEscort.net
PaymentGateways.net
Showz.net
Snif.net
VictoriaHomes.net
CasinoUK.org
cHemp.org
DebtReliefSolution.org
DiabeticHelp.org
EatGood.org
ePolls.org
HomeCareProvider.org
PetMedic.org
Poker101.org
ReEnergy.org
StraightFlush.org
Traden.org
Visors.org
Crypto.me
Grandeur.me
Heifer.me
Helio.me
Mourn.me
Reproductions.me
Signing.me
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Tootsie.me
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AmericanArt.tv
Arena.tv – premium
Championships.tv
FutureStar.tv
Military.tv – premium
Nylons.tv
Stan.tv – premium
Symbolism.tv
AmericanSports.info
BodyWork.info
CarShipping.info
Evaluations.info
InternetDownload.info
VideoProjector.info
Beatnik.us
Frankie.us
IceClimbing.us
iSource.us
Jynx.us
Make sure you also check out Domain Shane’s Big List of names and Domaining.com for some other great domain blogs and domain name lists.
Domain of the day: Mas.me – Make me an Offer!
Thanks for looking…
She also has a “Domain names as dot-commentary” report on her MSNBC.com page today…
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Rachel Maddow is right; someone purposely registered a celebrity’s full name and squatted on it.
It’s not like it’s “John Smith” or any other common name.
Just the kind of “domainer” that gives the rest of us a bad name.
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I agree Andrea, it is behavior like this that gives legitimate domain investors a bad name and gives the word Cybersquatting legs…
What I found so interesting was some of the stuff she said besides that, a real good look into public perception at the moment, things like:
“you go to the obvious place to get that information, you go to BruceSpringsteen.com” – So the obvious place you go when looking for something is a .com
“the Official Bruce Springsteen Website is Dot Net, not BruceSpringsteen.com, but rather Dot Net, which makes you feel like your talking on a flip phone in the 1990′s when you type it in” – LOL, poor Dot Net, and I like she said “type it in”
Hello Mark,
We do not suggest anyone legally register a name in this way. There is a lesson to be learned about the publics attitude towards the .COM Franchise Addresses preferred Brand though.
R. E. = ” and now the Official Bruce Springsteen Website is Dot Net, not BruceSpringsteen.com, but rather Dot Net, which makes you feel like your talking on a flip phone in the 1990′s when you type it in. ”
Gratefully, Jeff schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
wow so .com is really dead huh 😉
Rachael Maddow remains very bitter that I beat Obama and his group Organizing For Action dot net in a UDRP. We won the UDRP and Maddow went Madcow since.
Wow Adam, that is crazy. I wonder why they wanted a name that “makes you feel like your talking on a flip phone in the 1990′s” so bad, lol…
Bruce sucks almost as bad as Mad Cow anyway so who cares!