Many individuals and businesses have a web site but few understand their rights to the ownership of that site, or their responsibility to maintain that ownership. I bring this up because of a call I received last week from an individual whose website was “stolen”. They went on the Internet the other day to look [...]
Now before you go reaching for your identification to check who you are, let me reassure you… I’m talking about your domain name.
Forgetting to renew a domain name can result in HUGE headaches, including paying additional fees or even having a competitor or domain name reseller grab your prized domain name.
Depending on their goals, they [...]
The story of the domain name dispute between etoy.com and eToys.com uncovers an important issue facing all webmasters, should we register domain names that are similar to ours? In the eToys debacle, a group of artists registered the domain name “etoy.com” in 1995. Then in 1997, an online toy store bought the domain name “eToys.com” [...]