Reglikedomain industry desk

Typo FAIL

Typo FAIL

An unwise typo domain purchase.

This domain name auction, which concluded earlier today, begs two questions:

1. Do domain parkers click on ads when they accidentally stumble across a parked page?

2. Who would be stupid enough to shell out $2,250 on a domain that they’ll lose through arbitration?

Update 3/23: I received a note from Sedo today that the transaction was canceled. With regards to the comments below regarding allowing sales like this to happen, my experience with Sedo is they’ll take these auctions down in a heartbeat if you notify them. They also monitor auctions, but occasionally miss some.]

Also on the wire

Other reporting from the domain desk.

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