Who buys this stuff anyways?

If someone does that's some easy money right there.

What about iphonesex.com and iphonehome.com or iphoney.com myiphonespace.com

Hey Robert you start to sell those and you can be rich in no time.

Why does toms keep reporting useless stories like this?? Who cares if there is some ridiculous buy it now if it hasn't been sold. Even if it had who cares??

iPhone will be the bane of all existence. 'hey guys, want to see my obtrusive looking brick that i can touch. oh, i talk into it too'. Today is a terrible day for tech news.

Its a whole lot cheaper and a guaranteed tway for a company to get a IP domain name property by simply buying it. Its more expensive to try and fight it and you may not even win.

They won't often pay too much but $1000 or $5000 is pocket change to some companies. We gather that much revenue in a few minutes, maybe less. And I know we've bought domains, but we've never paid the kind of money they're asking.

That said, the right domain, and enough capital to market it could really make the difference between a dot-com and a dot-bomb.

What a waste of internet resources when people register several stupid domain names. Sheesh.

Darkk

I thought they passed some sort of law about this years ago when people were doing this before?

If they hadn't passed a law against it, they should. They are using a registered / copywrighted name without the owners permission. Some would rather spend more money fighting it in court than just paying them. It would be like paying extortion money.

Remember back in 2005, all those websites with 'iPod' in their name suddenly 'voluntarily' deciding to change their domain name? How soon some forget!