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Domain Name Game
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
Are you the Pope? Believe it or not, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI last year, it was discovered that a Florida man was claiming the title.
Actually what had happened was that a self-proclaimed writer of technology books by the name of Roger Cadenhead had taken it upon himself to be a domain squatter for the Web address that contained the Papal name, along with a number of other possible title variations.
It was quite a surprise to many at the time who directed their browsers to www.popebenedictxvi.com that it was not a link to communicate with the papacy, or even provided a profile on the man. Because of all the publicity surrounding the issue, Cadenhead later made a statement to the press where he stated that he was donating the domains to a charitable organization and had not intended to take fiscal advantage of the domains. He also said he did it so that pornographers could not take the names (yeah, right…).
Cybersquatting, cyberblackmail, cyberdirtytricks--call it what you will. Since the infancy of the Web, there have been opportunistic individuals and organizations that have snatched up domains and used them in various annoying or nefarious ways. You would think that by now it is easier to protect yourself from these schemes. But the difficulties are bigger than a virtual breadbox.
Mine or Mein?
The registration of domains is a …
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