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Facebook Launches New Legal Action Over Attempted Domain Name Abuse Scams

Social Media Today

Facebook is taking legal action against a company that's been looking to use lookalike domain names to dupe users.

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Facebook Takes Aim at Scammers Misusing Related Domain Names in New Lawsuit

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Facebook has filed a new lawsuit against two providers who've used Facebook-like domain names in order to dupe users.

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New gTLD Domain Name Forum Launched

Bill Hartzer

A New gTLD Domain Name forum has recently launched. As you may know by now if you haven’t been following my blog, I’m a big fan of the new gTLD domain names, and especially the keyword-rich opportunities they provide. Again, here’s the link to the new gTLD domain name forum: [link].

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Facebook Recovers Typo Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

Most likely a result of Facebook having sued a whole lot of cyber-squatters recently, Facebook has recovered 44 domain names that are typos of the Facebook brand. If you look at the new owner of these domains, they are owned by Facebook: Registrant: Domain Administrator. Facebook, Inc.

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Facebook Takes Legal Action Against 12 Facebook-Like Domain Names in Latest Push

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Facebook continues to ramp up its legal action against businesses looking to scam its users.

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Don’t Try to Sell a Celebrity Their Domain Name on Twitter

Bill Hartzer

There are several reasons that I can come up with right off the top of my head why you shouldn’t try to sell a celebrity a domain name on Twitter. Especially if that domain name is their brand or their name. And especially if you’re a cyber squatter, looking to profit by selling the domain name.

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Apple iPhone Doesn’t Recognize New gTLD Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

I’ve written before about how Twitter , Facebook , and even recently how Google’s Gmail were or were not recognizing the new gTLD domain names as real domain names. as real domain names, either! as real domain names, either! Domain Names' billhartzer.net.