Domain Name Theft
Are you losing visitors to your domain? Are your search engine rankings still yours?
Other people might hijack your search engine rankings and they might steal your web site visitors. The worst thing is that you might not even notice it.
Imagine your domain URL is listed in search engine results on Google, MSN and Yahoo. In the search engine results, most people that click on your domain URL are sent to your website. However, some people that click your domain URL are sent to a totally unrelated website that has nothing to do with your site and although your website domain name URL is displayed in the browser, people see a completely different site that has literally nothing to do with you or your company.
Domain Names - A Market Of Great And Growing Importance
Buying and selling domain names is big business. The nature of the birth of the internet is one of the great reasons why domain names have become so important, and have garnered so much monetary attention.
This year, 15 names used in Internet addresses have resold for at least six figures to companies and individuals hoping to tap into big audiences. On.com got $635,000. Macau.com fetched $550,000.
Sex.com went for a record $12 million in cash and stock to adult-entertainment company Escom in January, according to industry-trade reports and sources with knowledge of the deal, who declined to be named because of the private nature of the sale.