Friday, September 18, 2009

The Latest Frontrunner?

Hillary Clinton and John McCain, at the top of the New Hampshire heap, are savoring their new labels as frontrunners. But apparently they have to share with another frontrunner, at least according to an eWEEK article by Steven Vaughan-Nichols. Is Network Solutions reveling in the label? Maybe not so much.

You see, in Internet lingo, "front running" means locking up a domain name as soon as somebody does a Whois search. A cynic might point out that if a person happens to search for a domain on Joe's registration site, and Joe immediately grabs the name, then anyone wanting to buy the domain will have to go to

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