Friday, December 1, 2006

Egad, Ebay A Portland man inadvertently prompts the auction website to show how fiercely it guards its slice of the Net.

Fledgling business owner Mark Gazeley didn't raise much of a stir when he tried to attract Web visitors to his Portland-based management company for coastal properties with site names such as gotorockaway.com and gotoneskowin.com.
But he got some unwelcome attention for his Ocean Fresh Vacation Rentals business when he recently registered gotodepoebay.com with Web hosting company GoDaddy.com.
If you're wondering why, carefully read the last four letters of the website promoting the 1,174-person Lincoln County town of Depoe Bay. What's that happen to spell?

Read more http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3303/8267/

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