{"id":6140,"date":"2010-06-21T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6140"},"modified":"2010-06-21T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:08:09","slug":"domain-squatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6140","title":{"rendered":"Domain squatting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a company name.  I checked the trademark database and California Secretary of State to make sure the name was unique.  Then I queried GoDaddy to see if it was available.  I added to my cart, but didn&#8217;t buy it.  That was a big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next week, I designed a logo, wrote up trademark registry information, engaged a lawyer, prepared LLC documents, registered for internet sites the company will be using.<\/p>\n<p>Then I notice someone has registered both domains.  These are obscure names.  Two different squatters (not GoDaddy) had watched the queries and bought them.  Now I have to get a new name, hopefully one that matches the logo, and change all the forms and contacts I was writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a company name. I checked the trademark database and California Secretary of State to make sure the name was unique. Then I queried GoDaddy to see if it was available. I added to my cart, but didn&#8217;t buy it. That was a big mistake. Over the next week, I designed a logo, wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}