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by sixothree 1888 days ago
> The technical term for this type of manoeuvre is called “Cybersquatting” in English.
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No, that's buying a domain in the hopes someone will want it in the future. This was "domain sniping".
Yah. This gives him some bragging rights at most. If he hacked something, it'll be a different story though.