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Apple Acquires 16 Misspelled Variations of iTunes.com Domain Name
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Makes me sick really, parasites that make money from buying domain names similar to popular brands. To me it's anaglous to making a phone putting a pear on it with a bite out of it trademarked, then trying to sell it to apple so they can maintain the quality of their brand.
These people ad no value to the economy, to IT development, or the quality of the Internet.
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Apple makes a lucky squatter a millionaire all for being a sleazy bugger... greeeeat!
Apple makes a lucky squatter a millionaire all for being a sleazy bugger... greeeeat!
if you're typing 'itunse.com' when you mean 'google.com,' you're a bit of a nutcase.
Wait, what? You type itunse when you mean to type google? That's some serious fat fingering.
I think Apple paid probably $1 per domain, for a total of sixteen dollars. Not selling would have meant paying money to lawyers and losing the domains anyway.
"As a shareholder..."
Probably the most annoying aside comment used in these forums. As though someone having their 4, or 20, or 50 shares, suddenly makes them an authority point for how a business should conduct themselves.
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Not a personal attack, but I find it humorous people (including my wife) who type a URL into google, the click on the link from the search results.
(I guess for long domain names to type in the browser search box using suggestions on might save a second or two.
I wouldn't know if itunse pops above iTunes in google's suggestions. They must work hard to keep it there.)
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Not a personal attack, but I find it humorous people (including my wife) who type a URL into google, the click on the link from the search results.
(I guess for long domain names to type in the browser search box using suggestions on might save a second or two.
I wouldn't know if itunse pops above iTunes in google's suggestions. They must work hard to keep it there.)
I remember a while ago there was (and probably still is) a tool to search ebay for misspelled product listings. It was the greatest thing ever, all you did was type in what your search terms were and it tried many different spellings. You could get much better results, usually listings that were cheaper because no one could find them. So I think this is a great move for Apple, just covering their bases.
Actually, they make it so people either learn to spell or the company has to buy misspelled names. They do perform a service and you're just not a fan. They annoy me, but still...if they didn't exist, people would just not find the page if they're stupid. That simple.
'Fanbois' ?? You french guys always butting in with your unwanted opinions.
Checkout microsoft.co.fr and leave us alone
good thing it's not on the front page then.
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While you're here Arn, can I interest you in www.mnacrumors.com and a couple of other variations I've got for sale?
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I wonder how many misguided hits www.apple.co.uk gets from people in the UK looking for www.apple.com/uk. I'm imagining Apple would have to pay them some serious money to acquire that domain.
not surprised aapl is covering its bases - a good quality
more interesting to me though is - how much aapl had to pay up
more interesting to me though is - how much aapl had to pay up
This is standard practice for any company, and anyone who's ever registered a domain will know that domain sellers always encourage users to do stuff like this too. It works very well at keeping traffic on your site and away from phishers who abuse misspelling domains to trick people with short attention spans into giving their usernames and passwords.
That's actually quite common, as your wife proves. Ask a non-technie (and even some techie people) to find a url and they won't type in the address, they'll google it, www and all sometimes. The benefit is usually the top hit(s) are what they're looking for if it's a popular company or service and the user is assured that the hit is legitimate. If you type in a bad url, you never know who's on the other end of the misspelling.
I personally think most misspellings are a complete waste of space, for the reasons I just gave and having good SEO usually trumps a domain name if your website is doing its job. Apple must have seen some empirical evidence that these were useful to them or they wouldn't have gotten them.
Registrars usually recommend misspellings because that's more money in their pocket. Unless you run a financial institution or you have sensitive data, most companies don't worry about phishers. Hackers have bigger things to worry about than joescrazylawnservice.com. Google usually takes care of those misspellings.
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I think this is very sensible. If I'm going on a new site I'll usually Google the name of it to make sure no mistakes are made. If it's a site I know, I'll usually be used to typing it, so there are no issues, or, if I'm on my own devices, I'll have it on my history in the browser and I only have to type a few letters and hit enter.