Picayune URL is safe for 2 more years

Yesterday I renewed my lease on maggipicayune.net through dotster.com. Now I don’t want to start receiving e-mails from anyone about how I paid too much or there’s someone else who does it cheaper. I’m satisfied with the price I paid for a two-year period instead of my annual rate. 
 
So why maggipicayune.net instead of something simpler such as maggi.com or stevemaggi.com (my brother used to have brianmaggi.com)? Years ago, my family already discovered that some person in Europe already grabbed it and posted his website of his family. I couldn’t make out the language of it since it wasn’t in English nor French. There are probably a couple thousand people in the US, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria and Italy with this surname so I didn’t think it would be fair to wrestle it away to squat on it. 
 
Then my brother told me that Nestle scored it. Nestle? As in the candybar company based in Switzerland? Yes, them. Turns out they own Maggi which is a food processing company that specializes in canned goods. This brand is pretty common in Mexico and the bordering US states. 
 
Score one for the heartless, Swiss food-processing conglomerate that’s a poor world citizen. My brother and me could’ve been rich cybersquatting on that.

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