That, in essence, is what happened to Ken Bilderback, manager of the New Media Group at The Columbian Publishing Co. in Vancouver. When you entered the URL, all you got was an error message.
Blame here goes to an innocent typo and a roguishly unresponsive company.
Before you set up a Web site, you first need to make sure no one else has the name you want to use. A lucrative domain-name market has sprung up, and it's dominated by Network Solutions out of Virginia. That should not have happened. Network Solutions is supposed to verify domain name changes. For example, it should have not processed Sekerez's request without a notarized signature from the original owner of the domain name he wanted.