Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar Gallaga
| Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 03:03 PM
A story from IDG News Service says that Dell Inc. is suing a group of seemingly shady offshore companies who, according to the suit, make it a practice to register domain names based on misspellings to generate ad dollars under false pretenses.
The suit also describes the practice of “Domain tasting” and “kiting,” in which companies use a grace period for registered domains to acquire a large number of domain names, then dump the ones that aren’t generating enough money. In such cases, some companies exploit a five-day grace period to avoid paying for domain names that aren’t producing money.
It’s fascinating reading about a practice that also incorporates another big tech name: Google. Google’s AdSense program is a big money generator for many of these shell sites.
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