Given that parking pages often migrate towards what users want, then you might not even willingly realise that you are going down that path. Even parking providers should be very careful.

Domain names can be registered trademarks in the US. A hyphen would not be enough of a difference for consumers to be aware. Thus gaining additional traffic and then benefiting by showing the businesses own ads and those of its competitors could get you a writ and the parking company as well.

A U.S. company run by someone I know put a hyphen in their domain. The hyphenless version was available. I always had to retype the domain in my browser because I’d forget that blooming hyphen.

I finally registered the domain and offered it to them for the cost of reg. They never replied but an insider told me they figured they had a domain. Didn’t need another.

And they actually dropped several real good domains as they purchased some smaller independant companies to gain the “name recognition” the other company held. Go figure.

Correct link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Schilling

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Fixed. Thank you.

Sahar