Tempted to pre-order a new top-level domain name?
Howard Lake | 6 March 2001 | News
If you’re keen to register some of the new top-level domain names for your charity, hold back. Don’t believe those companies who offer to take your money in return for “guaranteeing” you one of these domain names.
Read the advice offered by the US Federal Trade Commission. The UK Trading Standards Institute is also reportedly investigating domain name pre-registration, but there was no further information on their Web site.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.