Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it is finally taking cyber squatters to court. These cyber squatters have been buying up the domain names containing trademarked Microsoft product names, services, and common misspellings. Doing so has helped these cyber squatters profit illegally from pay per click advertisements. “This land rush on the Internet was to collect as many domain names as possible and monetize them using pay-per-click ads,” said Aaron Kornblum, a Microsoft lawyer in charge of its Internet safety enforcement. Microsoft filed the suit against three persons who have registered “324 domain names targeting the software maker” according to Yahoo! News.

I truly hope Microsoft succeeds with this lawsuit. I am sick of having to come up with ‘unique’ domain names for my websites. The web needs to be changed back to the free exchange network it once was. With these cyber squatting bastards out there no man alive can simply buy a quality domain name without having to go to one of these cyber squatters ‘bordellos’ of domain names and plopping down a few grand rather than $8.99 at GoDaddy.

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