Intellectual Property Law

Is GoDaddy A Mass Cybersquatter?

By Marty Schwimmer

The Legal Satyricon: "Is GoDaddy A Mass Cybersquatter?":

These pay-per-click pages and their operators are the parasites of the internet. I love when they put some goddamned phrase at the top like ?find something interesting? or ?helping you find what you need.?

Far from ?helping you find what you need,? these sites do nothing except divert traffic from its intended destination. Trying to wipe them out is like playing whack-a-mole. Go find your favorite website. Lets presume that it is ?The Drudge Report.? Now type in http://wwwdrudgereport.com/ (note that I forgot the period). Click it and see where you wind up - certainly no where near the Drudge Report. You can do this all day long ? and you?ll find these crappy and annoying pages everywhere. I suspect that they outnumber ?legitimate? websites at this point.

Full post as published by Trademark Blog on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).