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  • June 23, 2004 at 4:01 pm #5690
    Martin
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    I guess you guys get this rubbish all the while as I do but I thought I would make mention: –

    Devious ‘gits’ buy ‘Domain Names’ then flog them to the highest bidder like the following email I got recently: –

    Dear Sirs,

    We own the domain name ZanussiRepairs.co.uk and are now inviting offers for its purchase. This is the very first time since it’s first registration in 1996 that this domain name has been available on the open market and if you are interested in acquiring it for your business please feel free to get in touch.

    Best regards,

    Peter Jones
    CHC Internet

    I am not the least bit interested BUT you may be ❓ (Offer them no more than 10 quid though 😉 )

    Martin

    June 23, 2004 at 5:06 pm #113115
    CJ
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    Re: Domain Name cr*p email

    domain names such as you mention may well have thier good points, such as lots of people will use it as an internet search, but you will probbably spend all day every day deleting calls from the other end of the country.

    I agree with you that this will be yet another WASTE OF TIME.

    June 24, 2004 at 3:55 pm #113116
    kwatt
    Keymaster

    I got this email as well, it would appear that CHC Internet seem to think they’re on a winner here without realising that any of the repairers will not have the kind of cash they want I suspect. The only real use it would be is to Service Force, as in Lux themselves, IMO and since they’re already pretty much sorted because some t**t has been, what is known, as cyber-sitting the domain I think they might be stuffed.

    Just to put this is perspective this is selling the domain name ONLY there is no traffic, no existing website, no business, in fact, no nothing other than a name. It will not also guarantee ANY preferential treatment by any search engine at all in terms of traffic or ranking.

    What these people do is buy up anything that they can and try to flog it on for vast profit, to register this domain probably cost them £15 back then, plus a few renewal fees along the way and then they’ll ask for thousands for it, if some mug is daft enough to pay them then good luck to them. Cyber-sitting is at best immoral and has been proven, in court, in some cases to actually be illegal, Marks & Spencer won a big battle over it IIRC.

    K.

    June 26, 2004 at 11:17 am #113117
    andy_art_trigg
    Participant

    Re: Domain Name cr*p email

    zanussi-repairs.co.uk is available for £10 for 2 years.

    ZanussiRepairs is rubbish because search engines don’t see that as a proper word. Who would search for “zanussirepairs” anyway? Using more than one word needs an underscore _ or a hyphen – between them.

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