Apple iPad domain names for sale on eBay

By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor 1238PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

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Canny web users have snapped up iPad-related domain names, and are right away listed on auction sites, such as eBay, for millions of dollars Photo Reuters

Online auction sites, such as eBay, have hundreds of listings for iPad-themed domain names. Some web addresses can be snapped up for around $100, whilst others are listed for extremely more. One domain name, ipaddownloads.com, is on sale for $1 million.

Nik Tyler, the 31-year-old jot down writer who purebred the ipaddownoloads.com domain name, told Fortune that he had perceived a little offers, but "nothing in the cost range" of what he hoped to grasp for the web address.

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Mr Tyler pronounced he paid for 3 iPad-related domain names ipaddownload.com, ipaddownloads.com and ipaddownloads.net last year, for $6 each, after ascent conjecture that Apple would launch a touch-screen, tablet-style computer by that name.

"This is probably the initial really intelligent thing I have ever finished in my life," he told Fortune.

Entrepreneurial web users are increasingly branch to domain name conjecture as a approach of creation money, gnawing up web addresses that might be sought after serve down the line, and offered them to alternative businesses and people at a big profit. Some web hosts, such as GoDaddy, capacitate people to have income by "parking" these domain names and reception a share of pay-per-click promotion revenue.

But the commercial operation is a quarrelsome one, with a little domain name speculators descending tainted of heading laws put in place to forestall cybersquatting or name-jacking, the routine by that people buy the website residence of a obvious association or individual, and afterwards sell it behind to that chairman or organization for majority times what they creatively paid for the domain.

Madonna famously won a justice box in 2000 to win carry out of the website Madonna.com, that was owned by Dan Parisi. The World Intellectual Property Organisation, a multiplication of the United Nations, ruled that Parisi had unsuccessful to infer a bona fide seductiveness in the web address, and had purebred it in bad faith.

Hundreds of alternative domain names are additionally on sale by eBay, together with A1ipad.com, listed with a Buy It Now cost of $4 million, and appleipad.com, that has a Buy It Now cost of $20 million.

iPad-related domain names on eBay.co.uk are labelled some-more modestly, with the majority costly domain, ipad-apple.bg, a relations discount at �10,000.

The iPad goes on sale in the United States on Apr 3, and will be accessible in the UK by the finish of subsequent month.