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New Tactics Are Explored to Create Business Relationships With Celebs

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Celebrity Cybersquatters - New Tactics Are Explored to Create Business Relationships With Celebs
New Tactics Are Explored to Create Business Relationships With Celebs
 Published: Mar 27, 06
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Cybersquatting the domain name of a celebrity and selling it for a king’s ransom was one of the great get-rich-quick schemes of the early internet. But since courts now tend to favor the star over the squatter, a new kinder, gentler cybersquatting tactic has emerged.

These days, cybersquatters seek to register a star’s domain before that person becomes famous, and then develop a business relationship with the new celebrity, offering website hosting or design work.

These so-called soft squatters are registering the domains of hundreds of amateur athletes, musicians and other would-be stars in the hope that one or two of the names will become well-known.

References:  wired

Filed In:  business,  internet,  pop culture








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