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The Washington Post submitted a complaint against Coler's registration of the site with GoDaddy under the UDRP, and in 2015, an arbitral panel ruled that Coler's registration of the domain name was a form of bad-faith cybersquatting (specifically, typosquatting), "through a website that competes with Complainant through the use of fake news ...
Ripoff Report is a private for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. [1] The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Tempe, Arizona. [2] In 2023 an Australian judge found the company purports to be a consumer review site but profits from extortive business practices. [3]
Yelp's website, Yelp.com, is a crowd-sourced local business review and social networking site. [8] The site has pages devoted to individual locations, such as restaurants or schools, where Yelp users can submit a review of their products or services [93] using a one to five stars rating scale. [16]
A review bomb is an Internet phenomenon in which a large number of people or a few people with multiple accounts [1] post negative user reviews online in an attempt to harm the sales or popularity of a product, a service, or a business. [2]
The website Metacritic was criticized in 2011 for poor oversight of their user reviews, leading to rampant review bombing on popular games such as Bastion and Toy Soldiers: Cold War that brought their user rating to low levels. [2] Mass Effect 3 was also review bombed on the site in 2012. [3]
Trustpilot Group plc, is a Danish consumer business operating a review website founded in Denmark in 2007 which hosts reviews of businesses worldwide. Nearly 1 million new reviews are posted each month. [2] The site offers freemium services to businesses. [3]
A review site is a website on which reviews can be posted about people, businesses, products, or services. These sites may use Web 2.0 techniques to gather reviews from site users or may employ professional writers to author reviews on the topic of concern for the site.
Billy McFarland at a 2014 Magnises event. Magnises was a card-based membership club co-founded by convicted fraudster Billy McFarland in August 2013. [1] Similar to Fyre Festival, another later scam by McFarland, Ja Rule was the spokesman. [2]