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What is Domain Squatting and how to protect your domain name?

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A Digital Land Grab

Domain squatting, also known as cyber squatting or domain name hijacking, is a deceptive practice where individuals or groups register domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to existing trademarks or brand names with the intent to profit from them. These digital squatters often hold these domains hostage, demanding exorbitant sums of money from legitimate owners to relinquish control.  

How Does Domain Squatting Work?

The process of domain squatting typically involves the

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Why all big sites and media news sites bought multiple domain extensions and redirect it to their main .com site?

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Comments: Hi today ! subject: Should you get .com, .org, and .net domain names – all the tld's? your statement: " So if you have the .com domain name, it is not a huge necessity or benefit to purchase the other domain name extensions if you are just going to redirect them to your .com website.  Also, that won't make any dent in your search engine optimization and ranking." When this not make sense, so why all big sites and

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Google buys domain name Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

Alphabet’s New Structure and Domain Strategy

Google has officially become a subsidiary of Alphabet, its new holding company.  After U.S. markets closed last Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company, consisting of Google search, Adsense, Google Maps, YouTube, and other new ventures such as driverless cars.  Alphabet chose a new tld for their website, abx.xyz, but they are still making similar domain name purchases.  They just recently purchased the "full alphabet", domain name that is,  Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.  Yes, each

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