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		sixothree on April 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” han... > The technical term for this type of manoeuvre is called “Cybersquatting” in English.

0xdba on April 22, 2021 | [–]

No, that's buying a domain in the hopes someone will want it in the future. This was "domain sniping".

canada_dry on April 22, 2021 | [–]

Yah. This gives him some bragging rights at most. If he hacked something, it'll be a different story though.

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