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Should you buy up opponents’ domain names?

By The Voice | Sat 23rd January 2010 - 7:20 pm

That’s the question posed by the actions Lib Dem candidate for Bishop Auckland:

One of the contenders for the Bishop Auckland seat, sitting MP Helen Goodman, accused Liberal Democrat opponent Mark Wilkes of aggression after he bought the rights to use helengoodman.org.uk as a website address.

Mr Wilkes, a Durham county councillor, also bought two domain names relating to independent liberal Sam Zair and on Friday added one for Tory Barbara Harrison.

Mr Wilkes said he had not decided how to use the site names, and added: “We have bought four names. They cost next to nothing – two or three pounds a

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