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Loses 8 Hyphen .Info Domain in UDRP — Gregory “Bong”

What are these guys smoking?

I thought I’d seen it all, but I hadn’t until today: someone lost a .info domain name with eight hyphens in a UDRP. But it gets more entertaining. The domain name is:

how-to-roll-a-blunt-with-a-swisher-sweet.info

And the registered owner? One Gregory Bong. Yes, bong. Or at least as stated by the whois record.

I can understand why Swisher would want to get this domain name off the web. But this strategy could be expensive. If you go following a .info domain name with eight hyphens that cost a buck to register, you could end up coughing up a number of thousand dollars many times over to take down any long, crappy domain name like this.

The domain name was just registered earlier this year, and it doesn’t appear to have become a popular site by any means.

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