Merde ! Forgot to register the damn domain !

French Secretary of State Yves J̩go announced in November a new Government backed web site dedicated to promoting tourism to over-seas territories: Voyageoutremer.com. Alors Рnobody registered the domain name.

Petit detail that didn’t go unnoticed by CLASH an assosiaton based on the island of St.Barthelemy, who slapped on a redirect and swiftly made hay in the light of free publicity, underlining there own vindication namely; changing the date slavery abolition is celebrated in their corner of the W.Indies. Src: www.silicon.fr

.Tel: new domain name that’s not one really (more like a page in a phone book)

out today for trademark owners. First of a 3 step squeeze ‘em. Next squeeze: free-for-all at premium prices 3rd Feb 09. Squeeze 3: General availability 24th March. A must have? Then get there before the homonyms and cybersquatters.

Which leaves us a little Typosquatting.

Must admit I was a little surprised to come accross OVH the n°1 hosting provider in France (so they say) on a netcraft report using the typo faccebook.fr to leach traffic from Big Book of Faces. Or should I not be surprised at all maybe? What’s source for the goose… I suppose. Still, bit much…no?

Src: netcraft