Professional Cybersquatter Capitalizes On Royal Wedding
Posted April 26th, 2011
It seems there is no where to hide from the media blitz that is the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton; not even on domain blogs.
Today’s domain related Will and Kate news comes courtesy of Jeff Geaney, a self professed “professional cybersquatter” who snapped up royalweddingring.com as part of a scheme to make money off the royal nuptials.
As reported by Couriermail.com.au: “Jeff Geaney buys and sells Internet addresses and quickly snapped up the address royalweddingring.com as soon as he heard Prince William and Kate Middleton were engaged.
“I thought, how will people be making money from this? Replica rings!” Geaney said.
As he predicted, there has been an online rush for knock-offs of the engagement ring William gave Kate in November, with retailers scrambling for the best domain name to attract customers.
Geaney is a professional “cyber-squatter”. For more than a decade, he has been buying addresses he predicts will be in high demand and sells them to the highest bidder.
“I’m waiting for a bigger offer at the moment,” Geaney said after receiving an anonymous $10,000 bid from the UK in an online auction.”
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Tags: Cybersquatting, Jeff Geaney, Kate Middleton, Prince William, Royal Wedding
Posted in Cybersquatting by Kelly Hardy
