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Wikipedia Yields to Protests and Stops Redirecting Searches on "Domainers" and "Domaining" to a Cybersquatting Page

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia  had yielded to protests from the domain community and stopped redirecting people to a page on cybersquatting when they enter "domaining",  "domainer" or "domainers" in the site's Search box.

Now those searches lead to a revamped page on the legitimate business of domaining that is largely the world of veteran domain investor Max Menius of North Carolina.

 

One of the many people in the industry who is distressed and offended by Wikipedia's blanket condemnation of this business is Max Menius, a veteran domain investor/developer from North Carolina who registered his first domain in 1998. Menius has patiently been communicating with Wikipedia in an effort to get them to correct their mistake. He even went so far as to invest hours of his time in writing a well documented page for Wikipedia explaining what domaining is since the moderators at the online encyclopedia are clearly clueless in that regard.

To read the article in full visit  : http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2009/dailyposts/20090806.htm

 

 
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