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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] What you see is not what you get
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:58:30 -0700
References: <d6.239865e4.2f7e27d0@aol.com>


Fine --- then put their funky domain names on top of their ads where we
click, rather than borrow another company's name. That's the point. I'll
do my job too and judge the business by their practices.
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Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] What you see is not what you get


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> Actually I find it as the tech or business guys just doing their job.
Many
> people/companies buy the domain names that are slightly different than
their
> own or their competitors name. That way you can still get the audience
you
> want if the searcher misspelled or reversed a word in the name. Sometimes
you
> can also do it in the hopes of catching someone going elsewhere.
>
> Using google as an example - you can also get to google.com by putting in
> the following addresses:
> gooogle.com
> googel.com
> gogle.com
> I'm sure there are more. Google bought these names to capture any
> misspellings.
>
> But then there are other companies that bought the following very similar
> addresses:
> googl.com
> gougle.com
> guogle.com
> gooogal.com
> These just happen to do with searching too.
>
> I wish I would have thought about it earlier. I just bought
> genecticstrace.com (not for mischief). Treegene is still available.
>
> Anyway, I suspect when most people use google, they look at the large list
> on the left side where dnaheritage.com is at the top of the list, as
opposed
> to the few sponsored links on the right.
>
> OK. Back to DNA.
>
> Bill Davenport
> >
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