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Excerpt: The Domain Name System (DNS) is a website’s primary identification scheme. Other identification schemes include the IP address and the autonomous system number. All these identification schemes can be viewed by using the WHOIS protocol, which accesses a website’s WHOIS record. The Domain Name Users remember a website because of its domain name. Unlike the IP address and the autonomous system number, both of which are made up of a series of numbers, the domain name can be made up of both numbers and letters. This leads to interesting combinations such as Ninetynine99.com, norestfortheweary.com, and buydomainnamesfor70.com. Domain names are usually sold by domain…

Is Your Domain Name a Trademark Infringement? is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Cybersquatting affects millions of businesses and individuals every year costing unaccountable financial losses and more importantly losses in terms of online reputation. Nearly all the people I speak to have never really thought much about cybersquatting and its consequences as they have never experienced it, but you only have to experience it once to understand what a big problem it really is and the effect it has. The dictionary definition of cybersquatting is: The registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date With the current advent and popularity of…

Beware of Cybersquatters – Your Domain is Important Now More than Ever. is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas