Myspace.com lose Myspace.co.uk domain name
Q. If you happen to be in the fortunate position of registering the .uk domain extension of the name of the biggest social networking site in the world a full 2 years before they launch, what is the stupidest thing you can do?
A. Try to make money from it by putting up a “parking” page full of PPC ads.
As the moment you do this you can be accused of “kiting” and you will be asked to hand the domain name over.
Which is exactly what happened in February of this year. The owners of Myspace.co.uk, a UK ISP called Total Web Solutions were told to hand the domain over to Myspace.com as they recenty put up a Sedo parking page up when Myspace.com gained popularity, thus cashing in on type-ins.
Amazingly however this decision has just been overturned and Myspace.com have been told to hand back Myspace.co.uk to Total Web Solutions. However the domain is pretty much worthless now as the moment that TWS attempt to put up another landing page then I imagine the Myspace.com lawyers will descend like a ton of bricks. Why oh why they didn’t just sell it to Myspace.com a few years ago is beyond me.
Full story here courtesy of TechCrunch UK.
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Myspace.com lose Myspace.co.uk domain name
Original post by Kieron