Web Law
The experts we spoke with for a May 9 article headlined, “Protecting Websites Against Domain Squatters,” said that business owners shouldn’t get too carried away with buying up website domain names that may be close, but not an exact match, for a business’s web address. Leaving these “typo domains” on the market can allow competitors to snatch up them up and siphon off traffic. One online reader had this to say on the subject:
“Yes, it is impossible to register [every] variation of a typo domain, but a company should at least register the most obvious ones. One of our clients registered 17 variations of a domain name and more than 50 percent of the direct traffic came from the typos. Those are huge numbers.”
Online reader EuropeanDomainCentre
Energy Squabbles
Biomass has gotten a bad rap in Massachusetts. Gov. Deval Patrick recently announced new regulations that would limit the types of biomass projects that would be eligible for state financing. An online reader has his doubts about Patrick’s motives:
“The ‘bio-mess’ plants (a fancy name for incinerators that are dirtier than coal) were [Deval Patrick] and Ian Bowles’s idea in the first place… If you follow any of [Patrick’s] initiatives even remotely you suddenly realize how hypocritical his policy is… What a jokester at the helm!”
Online reader BIGBANKSTOBLAME
Turning A Corner
We started a discussion at the WBJ’s LinkedIn Group about whether the economy has improved since 2008. Two readers shared their thoughts, which are sampled below:
“2011 has finally shown signs that the Worcester economy is improving. Although we’re not headhunters, we recruit and screen candidates for our clients, and our Worcester area clients are doing more hiring this year than the past three years.”
Bob Carnegie
