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Faroe Islands and Whales: #3 in 2016

Faroe Islands and Whales: #3 in 2016

Whale butchering and domain names do not mix. Or do they?

What do the Faroe Islands and whales have to do with domain names? Let me explain.

You can learn regarding the Faroe Islands, which relies on tourism for much of its economy, at VisitFaroeIslands.com. Slip a “the” into the address to make it VisitTheFaroeIslands.com and you’ll land on a gruesome site regarding whale butchering around the islands:

The tourism board that runs the first site filed a UDRP against the exposé site. Unsurprisingly, it lost the UDRP since the panel determined that site owner was making a legitimate non-commercial use of the domain name.

The post regarding this UDRP on Reglike was shared nearly 4,000 times on Facebook, generating lots of traffic and landing the post at #3 for the year.

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