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Lessons on Domain Name Squatting

For months now, Marc has been joking that he’ll sell me a domain I should have owned years ago. So yes, I really intended to get the domain abeolandres.com last month, and I thought I already did (along with several other personally branded ones).

I’m supposed to start my photography blog today. Imagine my utter surprise when I checked the domain a few minutes ago:

Domain Name: ABEOLANDRES.COM
Registrar: ULTRARPM INC. DBA METAPREDICT.COM
Whois Server: whois.ultrarpm.com
Referral URL: http://www.ultrarpm.com
Name Server: SK.S1.NS1.NS180.CNOMY.COM
Name Server: SK.S1.NS2.NS180.CNOMY.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 24-dec-2007
Creation Date: 24-dec-2007
Expiration Date: 24-dec-2008

Okay, all along I thought I already had that domain. Dang, and I thought somebody else using “yugatech” on Twitter was enough name-jacking. Either these guys think I’m gonna buy back that domain for a premium or maybe get some nice traffic and monetize the landing page.

I know, it’s my fault. Should have gotten it way earlier.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

38 Responses

  1. Avatar for Jacqualine Kiner Jacqualine Kiner says:

    great issues altogether, you simply received a new reader. What might you recommend in regards to your publish that you just made some days in the past? Any positive?

  2. Avatar for Сергей Александров Сергей Александров says:

    Обалдеть просто! Все, блин, об этом знают, кроме меня :)

  3. Avatar for Антон Антон says:

    Да уж Мне кажется, об этом пишут уже на каждом блоге :)

  4. Avatar for Marc Marc says:

    abeolandes.com, abeolandrez.com, abeolandtes.com for sale :)

  5. Avatar for JALANI C. MONTILA JALANI C. MONTILA says:

    Its because sir Abe was famous. :P gusto nilang binta ang domain ng mas mahal. :P

  6. Avatar for otoy m. reyes otoy m. reyes says:

    how about yugababeh.com hehe

  7. Avatar for Riz Riz says:

    Hahahhaha. :) Happy new year to you abe. LOL. (I should start buying domain names of popular pinoy bloggers. Hmmm.) :P

  8. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    @rd, you’re right! It’s available again. So Andre was right, it’s just domain tasters. They let it go after a week.

  9. Avatar for rdja rdja says:

    hey Abe, i just checked ABEOLANDRES.COM on goddady.. available pa ata ah.. also checked on domaintools for the whois.. la naman info… might want to double check…

  10. Avatar for Kiven Kiven says:

    naunahan ka din sa olandres.com, brother abe?

    ambibilis talaga. buti nga me grace period expiring name kung hindi baka nawal isa ko ding domain lol

  11. Avatar for Shutter Box Philippines Shutter Box Philippines says:

    Hayaan mo na Abe. 1 year lang naman yung registration nila.

    dotph nalang kunin mo ;-)

  12. Avatar for nina nina says:

    Tough luck indeed. I’ve long since given up trying to get ninafuentes.com (though if I *did* succeed in getting it, I should be so lucky because the domain is pretty popular heehee)

  13. Avatar for CallCenterVet CallCenterVet says:

    May mga nagtatatrack talaga ganyan… Palagay ko they have a way of tracking entry searches by other people in sites like godaddy. For example, somebody posted here na available pa yung olandres.com. The squatters may have caught on the person who queried olandres.com at a domain registrar and registered it. Ganyan din kase nangyari sa akin. I queried olympicblogger.com if it was available 3 months ago and the next day after I queried nakaregister na ang domain na yon. It may be too skeptical a theory but that’s the only scenario I can think of.

  14. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    Damn, sino ito???

    Domain Name: OLANDRES.COM
    Registrar: SCHLUND+PARTNER AG
    Whois Server: whois.schlund.info
    Referral URL: http://REGISTRAR.SCHLUND.INFO
    Name Server: NS57.1AND1.COM
    Name Server: NS58.1AND1.COM
    Status: ok
    Updated Date: 28-dec-2007
    Creation Date: 28-dec-2007
    Expiration Date: 28-dec-2008

  15. Avatar for quezacolt quezacolt says:

    so si marc nga ang may ari?

  16. Avatar for Dark Knight Dark Knight says:

    what do you mean elmer? clan? as in buong pamilya ni abe? “:)

  17. Avatar for elmer elmer says:

    Hey Able olandres.com is still available…hurry you could sub-domain with all your clan’s name i.e abe.olandres.com .olandres.com .olandres.com, etc..

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