Tech Peek Base

We all know about the trials and tribulations of holding on to domain names around particular brands, but here’s an example of a curious blip for one of the biggest blogs around focused on the business of technology and the internet, and one that seems timely to point out on the eve of one of the bigger tech conferences on the fall calendar, Le Web in Paris: the domain name TechCrunch.fr does not belong to AOL (NYSE: AOL), TechCrunch’s owner.

To read TechCrunch France, a user needs to point a browser to http://fr.techcrunch.com—just as someone looking for TechCrunch Europe goes to http://eu.techcrunch.com.