Comments on: Domain ownership - what happens when it expires

By: xebidy

xebidy — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:07:29 +0000

I received this from Bryan today for all to know:

Hi you guys,I have just read your article on web names.
My story is the opposite. I registered http://www.qantasjetstar.com and http://www.qantasjetstar.com.au for the purpose of promoting my book and showing Qantas up.
From my stats Qantas have spent hours looking at it and I am sure that they would like the name now that they have registered the business name ‘Qantas Jetstar’
I hope that I am one jump ahead of them as I am sure they would like me off the air especially now that I am doing blogs. I hope that for the safety of all air travellers you will give me a plug and make them be honest.
Cheers, Bryan Griffin

Qantas and Jetstar code of ethics
By Qantas Jet Star(Qantas Jet Star)
http://www.qantasjetstar.com 5th November 2007 Dear Mr. Chairman, I would like to put the following to the board at the AGM in Melbourne on 14th November 2007. It refers to the Qantas document titled ‘Qantas Code Of Conduct and Ethics. …
Qantas Jet Star - http://qantas-jet-star.blogspot.com/

By: xebidy

xebidy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:20:02 +0000

@loadedbeat thanks for your comments. Just to note that Xebidy is not in the practice of buying domains nor any of the ‘black hat’ techniques you speak of. I am continually asked to deal with these sort of issues regularly as clients and partners are in conflict over domains. Mat has his own website that he promotes external to the excellent developing he does with us.

The example I spoke about in Australia caused an actual court case.

Anyway, thanks very much for the comments: and yes Spike - best advice - get your domains in order and keep an eye on them.

By: Spike

Spike — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:40:52 +0000

I worked with a guy in 98 who purchased all the Yahoo, lycos and other .co.nz domains before yahoo thought about it. He managed to make a pretty penny doing this. Good on him. However ethics have changed and so has the way we approach domains and online business, not to mention the legal side of things (I don’t even want to get started).

Good on Matt for getting in early, you gotta have a little spunk in ya to do this. I contacted him on behalf of Queenstown Taxis to get the domain returned. In which he replied he would swap it for Queenstown.com. Haha. good one Matt, one hell of an “experience”. Anyways, some businesses are not technically savvy, they rely on employees coming and going to make the right decisions regarding IT. Unfortunately this is not a reliable solution, and you get what we have here. Good advice too keep an eye on it. Image loosing your cell phone number every year.

I would of thought that domain Guru ethics would of prompted Matt to let Queenstown Taxis know this, give them the benefit of the doubt, let them know about their soon to be loss and earn some good Karma… Anyways, each to their own.

you can visit the new Queenstown Taxis site and domain at http://www.queenstowntaxi.co.nz or http://www.queenstowntaxis.com Missed those ones didn’t ya Matt. :-p

By: loadedbeat

loadedbeat — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:42:18 +0000

While not illegal, it is rather dodgy, and thanks to this blog, you’ll be able to let other people know how you effectively steal other people’s domains for your own personal benefit. I wouldn’t really be promoting this ’service’ of yours.

This is an example of how people in the ‘know’ exploit those that don’t. Geeks vs n00bs huh?

Also, on the topic of SEO here’s a great example of the so-called black hat practices:

http://www.blindspott.co.nz/queenstown.htm

For those not in the know, black hat practices are frowned upon heavily by search engine giants like google.

By: Bryan Griffin

Bryan Griffin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:00:46 +0000

Here is a case where Qantas can’t get the name although I am sure they have looked a ways to do it