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Are You a Squatter?

40 years ago on January 1st, 1970
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So, we've all done it. Mistyped a URL and gotten a page full of useless ads. Not until recently did I decide to check out omarmaya.com, a domain name I registered in July of 2008 which expired a year later. I had no intention of renewing this name, so I let it go, regardless of all the junk mail I received from various registrars asking me to renew it. I was a little surprised when I typed in my old domain name it returned a page full of advertisement links. I asked myself, "Who would want to squat me?" Maybe it's for a different Omar Maya; regardless, they are squatting a person's name.

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