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Source : moreover / More : Domain Market - (26 March 2008 04:01)
Unethical activities are nothing new online. From the early days of 'Black Hat' search engine optimization techniques like keyword stuffing and white on white text, through search engine results scraping for content, email spamming and modern phishing scams, the web has seen more than its share of dubious activities by those looking to get rich really fast.
The strange thing about these activities is this: while most people see techniques like spamming and gaming the search engine results as repugnant, even when they are not technically illegal, there is a group of webmasters and developers who see nothing wrong with any of it, and actually admire those (the tiny minority of ruthless operators) who succeed in making money this way.
This ambiguity is obvious in the media coverage of cybersquatting and typosquatting, mainly directed at webmasters and internet entrepreneurs, and written by those who follow and participate in the domain name industry.
To the ordinary web user,
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