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Buying (and in some cases hoarding) domain names is still a big business for some seeking to make a profit online. One of the most famous domain name battles was the one over the WalMart.com / Wal-Mart.com domain name, in which an early domain name speculator bought the Walmart.com domain name, hoping to make a huge profit when Wal-Mart finally went online. Wal-Mart turned the tables on him by adding a hyphen to its name and domain name, making the original domain name virtually worthless at the time. Lawsuits ensued.

If you type in either Wal-Mart.com or WalMart.com, you’ll see who eventually won that battle.

Another tactic used by domain name speculators is to grab up the alternate top-level domains (TLD’s) like .org, .net, .tv, .info, .gov of famous organizations, or catch-phrases that promise to be popular. Remember “Don’t Taze me, Bro!”? Some industrious person(s) went to GoDaddy.com, and grabbed up donttazemebro.com, donttazemebro.net, donttazemebro.org, donttazemebro.info, donttazemebro.tv…etc..

Well, as of today, there’s a new domain name craze. “.me” is the TLD for Montenegro, but has lots of possibilities for domain name speculators worldwide. (hmmm…I wonder if help.me, love.me, bite.me, and youdontknow.me are taken?)

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