Dell Turns A Blind Eye To Companies That Feed Cybersquatters
Dell recently filed a lawsuit against cybersquatters - companies that buy misspelled variants of popular domain names, fill that page with Pay-Per-Click ads and then make huge profit from Internet traffic.
For instance, if someone types delll.com by mistake instead of dell.com, he could land on a web page loaded only with advertisements and no content. And chances are very high that those ads are served by Google AdSense.
So indirectly, Google (and other companies like Sedo, GoDaddy) are helping cybersquatters stay in the game and remain very profitable at the same time. Did Dell ignore this fact in the lawsuit ?
Last year, someone registered the domain www.labnol.com and started mirroring our content. That site was pulled download after we served a DMCA notice to both the domain registrar and their web hosting company.
But now that site is back in the game - they were accepted into the AdSense for domains program and Google is serving ads on that site related to Technology and Software.
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Don’t take this personally, it looks like you become a webmaster accidentally.
You should have grab all 3 TLDs including .in domain. It doesn’t cost too much money. If you really make $5k per month, I don’t see a problem registering and protecting your asset.
This is a good lesson for all *Indian wanna be next adsense king* or *webmasters*; learn to protect your asset. Just look at current movie and music piracy issue.
Amit…the question is that why is google compromising ethics here for revenue and continuing to serve ads on such pages….and did u try buying labnol.com domain last year from its owner…I am sure its price can now touch the roof if it is at all available for sale.
Dear Sir
Not to play spoilsport but here are some counter arguments.
Why relate mis-spelling squatters with content mirroring issue ? They both are separate problems
Dell can sue owners of delll. But you cannot sue owners of labnol.com or labnol.in or labnol.us or labnol.info or .travel or .anything for that matter.
This is bcos you dont own the name labnol. No personal name. No company name.
The ways out are -
1) Ignore it. It happens in real life too.
2) Get a new domain directly on .com and publicise that