Time Warner, Yahoo! Team Up to Cybersquat

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Domain Name Wire.

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Time Warner’s Road Runner internet service has teamed up with Yahoo to
typosquat on millions of unregistered domain names.

The feature from the two companies is called “Web Address Error Redirect
Service” and automatically sends web users to a page full of search ads
if they type in a web address that does not exist. It appears to override
customer’s own preferences in their browsers for what to do if an address
doesn’t exist.

Road Runner isn’t the first ISP to do this. Verizon already does it for
some of its customers. Yes, this is hypocritical given that Verizon has
sued typosquatters that own misspelled versions of its trademarks.

Major computer manufacturers including Gateway and Dell have similar
programs with Google but are managed at the browser level.

Both Dell and Verizon are members of The Coalition of Domain Name Abuse, an
organization whose charter is to stop typosquatting and cybersquatting.
Yes, that’s hypocritical too.

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More:
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/02/09/time-warner-yahoo-team-up-to-cybersqua
t/

- - ferg

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