BHP thwarted by themselves and dastardly web squatters get blamed

[Bacon Farmer]

BHP fails to register a new spin off's name.

BHP thwarted by web squatters

Some poor bloke gets called a web squatter. That means he squatted on a spiders web I guess.

Sheesh AFR journo, everyone knows it's cyber squatter.

And I can't believe they actually provided a link to the "parking page".

 

[findtim]

another journo with nothing better to do !

but the article doesn't say cyber squating and its only a .com and the .com.au is owner by lawyers !!!
tim

 

[Drop.com.au]

First registered 6 years ago so calling it cyber squatting is a bit absurd.

This is also a fabrication:

Fabulous Domains told The Australian Financial Review the address was sold in August to a Malibu-based company known as Kari Bian Film Company.

Seems like a pretty typical case of a marketing person not being smart enough to investigate a potential brand digitally before committing.

 

[Data Glasses]

The likely hood of getting a digital identity in facebook, twitter, domains, instragram at the same time these days is unlikely

 

[chris]

The likely hood of getting a digital identity in facebook, twitter, domains, instragram at the same time these days is unlikely

Good point spacey. It's a deal breaker for many people starting brands.

 

[eBranding.com.au]

The likely hood of getting a digital identity in facebook, twitter, domains, instragram at the same time these days is unlikely

It's pretty well impossible for any generic terms and very difficult for decent brand names.

 

[findtim]

The likely hood of getting a digital identity in facebook, twitter, domains, instragram at the same time these days is unlikely

you'd be lucky to even get an unbrandable "F1lt3r3d" there's so many fake accounts

tim

 

[Erwin]

Just listened to the 3 minute 'tongue' loop of that song "you can have anything you want", I guess that says enough..