Domain Scammers Tricks Revealed In Recent Court Case

[GhostShip]

I read this with interest.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142181-page,1/article.html

A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links.
In October, Dell sued a group of domain registrars, alleging the companies bought more than 1,100 domain names with trademark-infringing characteristics

The practice, known as typosquatting, is illegal. It's intended to draw unwitting Web surfers to pages with URLs (uniform resource locators) that are similar to legitimate sites, and then redirect them to other sites. The owners of these Web sites get revenue from advertising referral programs every time a link is clicked.

Dell sought a court order in November to freeze their assets so the money from their operations wouldn't disappear. Last month, the court amended the freeze order, and contained in the details of the new order are clues to just how much money the defendants may be raking in.

Reading the rest of the article its claimed that this one group operates 64 million domains between them, no doubt I have visted about 0.000001% of them in my years on the net, lets hope this parasitical practice dies an ugly death 

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I doubt it will... to much cash involved

[GhostShip]

Lend me that peice of iron your holding there  :twisted:

[Cobra]

Dell contends the defendants control some 1 million domain names, and believes they also have used at least 64 million other unique domain names.

Maybe if the courts can take a bite out of these jerks it will also help cut some of my search engine query results by half. I can't stand when I do a search for something that does not have a whole lot of results, and 90% of the results shown end up being sites like these.