Vodafone Hijacks Airtel’s Domain Name
There are no ethics in business anymore! Those who thought that MNCs in India would be more ethical are smoking pot! Here is an interesting and a distasteful hijacking of the domain by Vodafone of Airtel’s domain name. Type Airtel.com and you will be directed to www.vodafone.es ! Domain Squatting in not uncommon but this is a little too cheeky and unprofessional.
Huzaifa Das suggests in a desecrates group email that this is because Vodafone bought out Airtel’s Spain operations. Airtel had won a license to operate in Spain . In the last line, she has a valid point!
Try www.Airtel.es that will also redirect to www.Vodafone.es ! Vodafone or Badfone huh??
All this three domains r registered and hosted with Verio Inc. http://www.verio.com/
Domain Squatting Explained
I think no more we will have airtel’s mistake or surprise postings!!! 
follow the link for me explanation u can ping me!
http://ezinearticles.com/?Domain-Squatting-Explained&id=50564
Goggle.com is a classic and great example of domain squatting — whether you like it or not.
The domain was first registered in 2003, only six years after Google.com was first registered. Sure, it’s quite possible Google just didn’t think about this in the first place and got sloppy, but either way, goggle.com is owned by someone other than Google Inc.
Stats prove that day in and day out, Internet users around the world type in the wrong domain. Google receives hundreds of millions of hits per day, seems like a decent amount of that traffic actually goes to the wrong domain.
So what is goggle.com doing to monetize that typo type-in traffic? “Free” offers provided by FluxAds, which then redirects you to a MyExclusiveRewards partner page. Seems like these “free” offers were a huge success, one year ago, but now they are worthless and it’s so hard to actually make them work now.
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Flenn
October 23, 2007 at 11:03 AM
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Bruce
October 23, 2007 at 11:09 AM
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Shylaja
October 24, 2007 at 4:15 AM
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Nick
October 24, 2007 at 8:19 AM
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Glenn
October 24, 2007 at 11:18 AM
with a business’s success,there should be some
fraud.it is applying to any business.for that
vodaphone’s is wrong.
victor
October 25, 2007 at 5:17 AM
Another victum of cybersquatting. My last name is very unique. I tried contacting the domain thieves but with no reply or bogus email.
1300$ to file a complaint for a personal website?
I quess they win!
Patrick
November 11, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Hi
It some interesting to see that vodafone redirecting but from the point of bussiness this is a froud.this will affect vodaphone reputation.
jwala singh(india)
March 27, 2008 at 5:44 AM
Hi
Vodafone Spain has already a domain name and a trademark prior to the Airtel. So I don’t think it is a domain squatting on the part of Vodafone.
Abhinandan
April 16, 2008 at 5:47 AM