[Tfug] Domain names

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Gruenenfelder" <johng at as.arizona.edu>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Domain names


> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:49:12AM -0700, Bowie J. Poag
> wrote:
>>
>>Careful -- Telling someone their brilliant investment idea
>>is worthless
>>(domain squatting) is no way to make friends. :)
>
> Good point.
>
> On the other hand, I am willing to state, here and now,
> that such persons are
> a blight on the Net and society at large.  It's the
> equivalent of my being
> able to "reserve" possible book titles for that library I
> plan to personally
> write later on,

An academic analogue...

Or how about reserving a concept not accomplished or fully
realized? (US Patents, esp software patents) Then one is
able to parasitically sue the people who made the idea work?

> and then auctioning them off because I've got better
> things to
> do than write 4.6 billion pages of text.
>
> Sadly, after I wrote the last email, I looked around some
> more.  Seems like
> most of the registrars actively support this sort of
> activity with "reseller
> accounts" and such.  I guess it won't be getting better
> any time soon.

How does acting as a seller for a registrar perpetuate
squatting?

Oh, maybe just answered my question... By being able to buy
domains at a "wholesale" rate?

>
> *sigh*
>
> P.S. I don't mean to disparage any TFUGgers, but if you're
> squatting you
> should really consider a more gainful line of employment
> and/or investment.
> :)


Gainful as in the guy in town who sold wallstreet.com,  was
it? Or was it business.com?

Or perhaps gainful like the login.com guy who sold former
ISP domain, aces.com to a gambling concern?

Is the complaint that the squatter "is not using" the
domain, except to make an unreasonable profit off of it?

If the owners had some content associated with those domain
names, would that make their unavailability less
distasteful?





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