One senior web figure has accused the Brussels officials of "grand manipulation and lax administration", as European companies with trademark names and even some of Europe's biggest capital cities have had potential.eu domains snatched from them in a cyberspace land grab.
Doh. Domain squatters snatched away the domain name GeorgeWBushLibrary.com and made an easy $34,990 profit on promptly selling it to back to Yuma Solutions, the web development company that let it expire.
Under Robert Moses, the "master-builder" who shaped the city from the 1930s to the 1960s, urban renewal became voracious, often using eminent domain to snatch private property and replace lively neighbourhoods with self-contained housing projects that became barren and dangerous.
It appears that domain got snatched up by an e-cigarette store in New York state called Fluid Vapor.
Roof did not own the thelastrhodesian.com URL but it appears that domain got snatched up by an e-cigarette store in Bohemia, New York, called Fluid Vapor.
Until domain-snatching came along, journal hijacking was easy to spot.
Once the targets are identified, snatching their domains is easy.
Science's correspondent investigates a confidential tip that fraudsters are snatching internet domains from right under the noses of academic publishers.
It won't be the last journal domain to get snatched.
Townley, who claims to have registered about 150 domain names, sometimes snatches up the rights to a URL for a company or project to be launched later.
Meryl Evans suggests five steps for reputation management, including "snatching up all domain names associated with your business".
