BBC Stockpiling Web Addresses

This is half interesting as a controversy: In UK, the BBC is building a huge stockpile of internet domain names not related to bbc.co.uk, its principal website address. This has raised the ire of British Internet Publishers Alliance, whose members include most of the UK’s newspaper groups.

As the story says,it is unclear how third-party registration of names such as collinsshaw.co.uk or internationalunit.com could have any negative impact on the BBC or its brand (BBC’s own defense for doing this).

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