Has anyone else run into this? You try to register a common mis-spelling of your domain name, and find that someone has beat you to it and it goes to a generic, "we'll find you an agent" page?
As REALTORS we know that a large part of the public (heck- half the REALTORS) pronounce it real-i-tor, or real-i-ty. Our Company name is Prest Realty. I tried, a couple of years ago, to register PrestReality.com because when we opened our office some of our bills (even from Qwest, who should know better) came addressed that way. When I tried, to my surprise I found that http://www.prestreality.com/ (note the i in reality) goes to http://www.reaalestate.com/ (again, note the mis-spelling). On that site there are links to various companies who are probably legitimate, and MAY be paying the site for the ads, and probably don't realize they are doing business with a company that gets hits by cheating.
I've looked into "resolving domain name disputes" and the basic instructions are to hire a lawyer. Now it really isn't worth it to us to hire a lawyer, I doubt if the site is getting all THAT many hits, I'm careful to spell our name for people and to tell them "no i in any of it". But it is irritating. Why does some company think that they have to do business by cheating?
According to WhoIs, the domain name PrestReality.com is registered to
Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc
2101 Rosecrans Ave.
#2000
El Segundo, CA 90245
Email: domainadmin@navigationcatalyst.com
Fax: 3106476001
We're a small, "Mom and Pop" office, and if they decided to "steal" our domain, I'm wondering just how many mis-spelled domains they have. Anyone else?
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