Subject: About Domain
Names, Cybersquatting, MikeRoweSoft.com, and Billing Scams
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September 25
2006 - Issue # 12
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Dear Ron,
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The domain name system (DNS) translates domain names
(computer hostnames) to IP addresses, making it possible to
attach easy-to-remember domain names (such as “wikipedia.org”)
to hard-to-remember IP addresses (such as 66.230.200.105).
Humans take advantage of this when they recite URLs and e-mail
addresses.
Read
the History of the DNS and How
it works in Theory |
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top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain
name, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain
name. For example, in the domain name www.website.com, the
top-level domain is com (or COM, as domain names are not
case-sensitive).
The
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) currently
classifies top-level domains into two main types:
-country
code top-level domains used by a country or a dependent
territory, two letters, .ca for Canada .
-generic top-level
domain used by a particular class of organizations, like .com
for commercial, .biz, .info, .name and .pro.
A full
list of currently existing TLDs can be found here.
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Cybersquatting:
is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with
bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark
belonging to someone else. Read
more
Domain Kiting or Domain Tasting refers to a practice
of registrants using the period at the beginning of a domain
registration to test the marketability of a domain name. During this
period, when a registration can be fully refunded by the domain
registry, a cost-benefit analysis is conducted by the registrant on
the viability of deriving income from advertisements being placed on
the domain’s web site. Read
more
Domain Name Warehousing is the common practice of
registrars obtaining control of domain names with the intent to hold
or “warehouse” names for their use and/or profit. Read
more
Domain Parking is an advertising practice used
primarily by domain name registrars and internet advertising
publishers to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed
domain name. Read
more
Typosquatting is a form of cybersquatting which
relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet
users when inputting a website address into a web browser. Should a
user accidentally enter an incorrect website address, they may be
led to an alternative address owned by a cybersquatter. Read
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Mike Rowe is a
Canadian university student, notable for being the defendant in a
lawsuit filed by Microsoft over the domain name “MikeRoweSoft.com”.
In the end, a settlement was agreed, with Rowe granting ownership of
the domain in return for some gifts from Microsoft.
MikeRoweSoft.com was initially registered by Mike Rowe in
August 2003. He chose the name because of the phonetic similarity to
the word Microsoft, while still being a bona fide use of his own
name. However, Microsoft saw the domain name as trademark
infringement and in January 2004 requested that Mike hand over the
domain name. He was “amazed and appalled” at this, and replied back
stating his intention not to hand over the domain
name.
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Sincerely,
Ron Foreman
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