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Defend Your ID and Reputation!!!
Domain Magnate (Domain Magnate » Blog Archive » Someone Snatched My Email!) has posted a disturbing article about gmail squatting. Evidently, someone is registering gmails, using the ID handles of various domainers, both well-known and less known.
Sure enough, when I checked to see if MsDomainer [at] gmail [dot] com was available, it was taken. In fact, even the variations were gone.
I checked Yahoo! as well--MsDomainer was still available, so I took it, just as a defensive move.
I can think of only two reasons an outside party would want to squat on an ID that someone else uses regularly on blogs, forums, and even in commerce:
So I just want everyone to know that I am NOT the owner of MsDomainer [at] gmail [dot] com and that if you receive domain offers from this gmail, or ANY FREEBIE email using MsDomainer or its variations, it's not from me.
Starting today, when I send out emails to potential buyers or sellers, such sales messages will NOT originate from a freebie gmail or email account, but from a domain-based email, one that offers my Whois information in the light of day.
My message to you: I recommend that you check to see if your ID is available in both Gmail and Yahoo! and, if they are, to sign them up. Most importantly, keep vigilant.
Protect Your ID, even if it’s just an identity that you use on your blogs and in forums!
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Defend Your ID and Reputation!!!
Domain Magnate (Domain Magnate » Blog Archive » Someone Snatched My Email!) has posted a disturbing article about gmail squatting. Evidently, someone is registering gmails, using the ID handles of various domainers, both well-known and less known.
Sure enough, when I checked to see if MsDomainer [at] gmail [dot] com was available, it was taken. In fact, even the variations were gone.
I checked Yahoo! as well--MsDomainer was still available, so I took it, just as a defensive move.
I can think of only two reasons an outside party would want to squat on an ID that someone else uses regularly on blogs, forums, and even in commerce:
1. To try selling the account to the ID owner (I’m not interested, by the way—I have just switched to domain-based emails for my business).
2. To scam others, using the gmail address to masquerade as the rightful ID owner. This second possibility is more disturbing because one’s reputation could be sullied in a domain scam perpetrated by the “owner” of the gmail account!
2. To scam others, using the gmail address to masquerade as the rightful ID owner. This second possibility is more disturbing because one’s reputation could be sullied in a domain scam perpetrated by the “owner” of the gmail account!
So I just want everyone to know that I am NOT the owner of MsDomainer [at] gmail [dot] com and that if you receive domain offers from this gmail, or ANY FREEBIE email using MsDomainer or its variations, it's not from me.
Starting today, when I send out emails to potential buyers or sellers, such sales messages will NOT originate from a freebie gmail or email account, but from a domain-based email, one that offers my Whois information in the light of day.
My message to you: I recommend that you check to see if your ID is available in both Gmail and Yahoo! and, if they are, to sign them up. Most importantly, keep vigilant.
Protect Your ID, even if it’s just an identity that you use on your blogs and in forums!
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