Posted on 20 January 2012. Tags: cybersquatting, domains, trademark, trademarks
There are some Internet Marketing courses floating around that advise you to register an exact match domain name for trademarked products to promote those products. There are numerous reasons why this is a bad idea. The number one reason why it is a bad idea is that using a company’s trademark can get you into [...]
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Posted on 19 October 2010. Tags: Filezilla, ftp, ftp client, tutorial
A lot of my customers and other newbies do not know how to ftp files to their server. This is a skill that anyone who owns domain names should acquire. It may seem complicated at first, but once you learn it, it really isn’t and you will then be able to upload a website or [...]
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Posted on 28 February 2009. Tags: Toys R Us, toys.com
In a heated bidding war, ToysRUs bought the domain name Toys.com at auction for $5.1 million. ToysRus really wanted the domain, for obvious reasons. Everyone except ToysRUs and domain holding company National A-1 (owner of domains such as free.com, boys.com, girls.com, and divorce.com) bowed out of the auction at $3 million. The last $2 million [...]
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