Isle of Man Facebook wrangles
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by sherrilynne
The Register is reporting that an Isle of Man-base company has lost a legal suit to keep the face-book.com domain.
“Facebook has wrestled control of the web address face-book.com away from an Isle of Man-based firm that operates it as a revenue-raising link dump.
Manx outfit YOLAPT registered the domain on 3 October 2004, several months after Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com, but while it was still only available to a few US colleges.”
Who said that the Isle of Man is not at the forefront of social media?
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I am really surprised by this, I thought the whole point of the domain name game was that you buy something that a company/person wanted and then could earn money from it. Apparently not anymore. should save some people some money somewhere.