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news.digitaltrends.com - 9/18/2008

Names Of Merged Banks Cybersquatted

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Yes, the cybersquatters are at it again. With the merger of so a number of banks looking likely, they began registering domain names with the new names, full of speculation like hsbclehman.com, barclayslehman.com, and bankofamericalehman.com and boaml.com. Many of them were ...

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Financial sector crisis is a field day for domain squatters
CrunchGear — ... I don’t pretend to understand the reasons behind the current financial meltdown, but I do know that the topography of the money business is going to be changing soon. I don’t have any way to capitalize on that (I just cower here in a corner, nervously stroking my Benjamins), but domain squatters do. By now every possible merger, acquisition, and bailout is reflected in domain names, for sale to the highest bidder, but likely being surreptitiously submitted to the IT and legal departments at bank after bank. ...