Further to the de-registration of a domain name by registrar, GoDaddy, the former registrant has now put up NoDaddy.com.

Registrars reserve powerful rights to de-register domain names belonging to registrants who have violated the terms of service agreement. They tend not to, in the absence of a court order. It turns out that GoDaddy does, here in the case of a website that was making available lists of MySpace usernames and passwords.
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Sunday Times of London: “Homeless in Cyberspace” (in which the author forgets to renew her domain name, and a speculator offers to sell it back to her for $888).

IHT: “MGM seeks control of Wargames.com site name.” MGM is apparently planning a sequel to the film ‘Wargames.” The domain name registrant has put up a war games-related site since receiving the demand letter, which of itself will not be all that probative. This registrant also has been in the news in 2005…

Registrant:
Christopher Little Literary Agency
10 Eel Brook Studios
125 Moore Park Rd
London
SW6 4PS
UK
Domain name: DEATHLYHALLOWS.COM
Created on: 2006-12-21
Expires on: 2008-12-21
Christopher Little is JK Rowlings’ agent. It was announced today that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be the name of the seventh book.

Intending to go to Netflix, I typed in Netflox.

Domain Name Wire: “Marchex May Have $24M In Trademark Domains” (Marchex being the owner of one of the larger domain name portfolios):
“David Kesmodel’s expose on domain company Marchex (NASD: MCHX) continues to dig up dirt. After discovering that the company was monetizing a number of trademark typos through its parking program, Kesmodel…

Cybersquatters risk punitive damages of $100,000 per name to divert traffic through use of a confusingly similar domain name. Universal Tube of Pennsylvania, which sells machines for making metal tubes, owns the domain name UTUBE.COM. It received 65 million hits in August, most of them, no doubt, intended for YouTube. And is it happy? No.…