Is Your Business Name Being Squatted?
January 7, 2009 by ShannonCherry
Filed under Business
Remember when domain squatting was a BIG deal? You know, when a person bought a domain with a specific company name and basically holds it for ransom, like the famous case of Madonna, who had to sue to get ownership of Madonna.com.
Well, it’s happening again, but this time on the microblogging site Twitter. Some of the big names that are being squatted include Tim Hortons, Sears and Coca-Cola.
What is really bothersome about this trend is that many squatters can tweet malicious and bad things, basically smearing a company’s reputation.
It happened recently to Exxon-Mobil – and it can happen to you.
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