flickrsucks.com
by Volker Weber
flickrsucks.com? flickrsucks.com!
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Imagine you're the maker of a product/serice named xyz. How do you prevent that someone who doesn't like your product registers a domain xyzsucks.com (or similar) and puts up a website to rant and flame about your product/service? Register the domain yourself and make a website like this. Good idea, but you probably have to be registering very many domains to fully cover all possibilities.
>How do you prevent that someone who doesn't like your product registers
> a domain xyzsucks.com (or similar) and puts up a website to rant and
>flame about your product/service?
You don't. It's called 'freedom of speech' and comes free with every form of democracy. There are, of course, limits to that freedom which are laid down by the law, and the "borders" of that freedom are constantly in discussion and moving.
However certain things like e.e "slander" are prohibited in all the democracies I know, so that would be something thatwould limit the way in which somebody could write about you or your business and thus provide some sort of protection.
Hell, domain names are cheap, and a company has every right to buy every possible domain name that it wants to in order to protect its brand. True, free speech means that people can say what they want about your company, but if your company is pro-active in registering domain names, it makes it harder for an xyz-sucks site to have a meaningful domain name. Either way, Flickr does indeed ROCK.
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