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April 25, 2007

Infringing on one’s identity

Filed under: identity — charlesnelson @ 8:39 am

Jill Walker writes about someone stealing her URL. Her URL is jill/text.net and an extremist middle-eastern blog called Samson Blinded has started using jill/txt.org. Why would someone use the first part of her domain name? She responds,

This is clearly a site that, finding conventional means [for advertising] blocked, has chosen to use unconventional means to reach an audience. Putting copies of their blog on domains that are very close to established but completely unrelated blogs is apparently one of their strategies.

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