“If you want to complain about your Apple TV, Microsoft One Drive or Timex watch, you won’t be able to do it at appletv.sucks, onedrive.sucks or timex.sucks,” Aaron Pressman reports for Yahoo Finance. “Apple, Microsoft and Timex have already taken those monikers during the ongoing 60-day early registration period reserved for trademark holders and celebrities. Yahoo, the parent of Yahoo Finance, has also registered some .sucks names.”
“Oprah Winfrey, Kevin Spacey and Taylor Swift are trying to outsmart the haters,” Pressman reports. “Representatives for the celebrities, along with many well-known companies, are grabbing up new Internet website names ending in ‘.sucks’ at a cost of more than $2,000 a pop.”
Pressman reports, “The Vox Populi Registry, which won the right to oversee the .sucks domain, is disclosing the preregistrations as they come in, says CEO John Berard.”
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