Ok. Thanks. That's what I thought, but since it came from the "official" anti-cybersquatting organization, I thought I'd double-check. According to them, registering keywords can result in someone typing "blueridgecarpet" into their browser and it bypassing the normal search engines and going directly to the website of the organization that registered the "keyword". I thought it was probably BS, but thought I'd get a second, more educated opinion. :-)
From: RS [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Registering "keywords" What is a keyword outside of the SEO context? If you own blueridgecarpet.com, you can ignore all the BS that floats in. Just pay attention to the notices from your registrar. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:30 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: I keep receiving notifications from foreign registrars that someone is trying to register "keywords" for our domain. Normally I just dismiss them as an extortion attempt, however, this morning, we received a message from our website feedback form from m-w-w.com, the Chinese anti-cybersquatting organization (at least that's what their website says they are) claiming that someone was trying to register the keyword "blueridgecarpet". Should I just ignore this one as well, or should we go ahead and register the keyword ourselves? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
