Online travel market hit by cybersquatters - Economic Times
Posted on June 15th, 2008 by domain - Google News
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Online travel market hit by cybersquatters
Economic Times, India - 3 hours ago
Vendors, essentially cybersquatters, are using brand names of popular travel portals as their domain names and also in their content to generate ...
The $2-billion online travel market is the latest to be hit by cybersquatters. Vendors, essentially cybersquatters, are using brand names of popular travel portals as their domain names and also in their content to generate traffic-sometimes by even hoodwinking the consumer.
So, don't be surprised if next time you 'google' the name of a travel portal to book your dream vacation and are directed to websites such as mytripyatra.com, cleartrip.net.in (instead of cleartrip.com) or indiatimestravel.com (instead of travel.indiatimes.com).
With the market for online portals hotting up with many new players entering the space, it has also caught attention of squatters eyeing quick bucks. "Online travel as a segment is quite popular among internet users," says Travelguru CEO Ashwin Damera. "Therefore, it has seen mushrooming of websites which are mainly 'squatter websites' or 'domain parking sites'...... |
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