Some travel sites go nowhere

Tons of Web site names are registered to people who have no purpose owning them other than financial speculation or advertising manipulation.

That’s the way the Web works: first-come gets the name, unless the domain address is protected through a product copyright or trademark.

Here are four generic domain names that could have been nice travel sites but became spam or junk depositories by domain traders who bought them and are waiting for someone to make an offer: Bonvoyage.com, takeflight.com, travellight.com and sailaway.com.

Takeflight, for instance, is actually a “scraper site” – a site that simply grabs a bunch of links to related content sites and was created largely to boost traffic for those sites. Takeflight is for sale, as the site’s owner notes in a prominent banner.