Lessons on Domain Name Squatting

For months now, Marc has been joking that he’ll sell me a domain I should have owned years ago. So yes, I really intended to get the domain abeolandres.com last month, and I thought I already did (along with several other personally branded ones).

I’m supposed to start my photography blog today. Imagine my utter surprise when I checked the domain a few minutes ago:

Domain Name: ABEOLANDRES.COM
Registrar: ULTRARPM INC. DBA METAPREDICT.COM
Whois Server: whois.ultrarpm.com
Referral URL: http://www.ultrarpm.com
Name Server: SK.S1.NS1.NS180.CNOMY.COM
Name Server: SK.S1.NS2.NS180.CNOMY.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 24-dec-2007
Creation Date: 24-dec-2007
Expiration Date: 24-dec-2008

Okay, all along I thought I already had that domain. Dang, and I thought somebody else using “yugatech” on Twitter was enough name-jacking. Either these guys think I’m gonna buy back that domain for a premium or maybe get some nice traffic and monetize the landing page.

I know, it’s my fault. Should have gotten it way earlier.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

38 Comments

Kenneth says:

17 years ago

Hehehe.. Malakas ka kasi sa internet, so gagamitin nila name mo.. Just my two cents. ;-)
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Gene says:

17 years ago

yep.. sikat ka kasi bro eh :)
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RNHalawi | TEAMPILIPINAS.BLOGSPOT.COM says:

17 years ago

why dont you try.. yugabe.com meaning “YOU GAVE” lolz..
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Joni says:

17 years ago

That’s a wise yet evil thing he did. hehe. mag .net nlng :)
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Shannon says:

17 years ago

naku poh! Ang malas mo naman. hehehe… hayaan mo nalang yan, baka bitawan din nila yan. pwede din naman yung .net .ph right? pero iba pa rin pg .com
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CallCenterVet says:

17 years ago

This is true. In my case, I started out with my Olympic Blog http://www.olympicblogger.blogspot.com/ on blogspot and planned to buy the domain olympicblogger.com a few weeks after. But low and behold, somebody from Burma or Vietnam snatched the domain already. The funny and curious thing was the guy who got the domain registered it 1 day after I took the blogspot subdomain. I wonder how they do that? Maybe they got some software scanning domain names. Ha!
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boddah says:

17 years ago

Cybersquatters.. madalas nilang gawin yan especially if you have a popular name. And you really have to be quick coz they use softwares to track, monitor, and automatically register an expired domain. Iba talaga pag sikat :)
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RNHalawi | TEAMPILIPINAS.BLOGSPOT.COM says:

17 years ago

In my case… Im running a blog http://teampilipinas.blogspot.com then when im ready to buy teampilipinas.com ouuucchhh… it was already taken… and it was a copycat of my blog … good thing it will expire by Feb2008 hopefully di na nya ma|Renew un… =)
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deuts says:

17 years ago

Well, I guess, just make it a USD 10 loss for them…:)
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Dark Knight says:

17 years ago

so Yuga… how much are you willing to shell out to get your Domain Name?

-from the ULTRARPM INC. DBA METAPREDICT.COM representatives

8)
hehe. no really.. abe, how much is your domain name, with own name, to you?
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