[Tfug] Domain names

[Quag7]

On Sunday 27 January 2008 10:39:21 am johngalt1 wrote:

> 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?

Mixing one's labor with the land is customary, but domain squatting is not 
something I lose sleep over.  I will say that I kind of wish that squatted 
domains had something interesting on their web pages rather than those 
generic "links to all sorts of subjects" which are fairly depressing in the 
way spam is depressing.  A picture of a hot babe or lolcat or perhaps stills 
from The Fall Guy or Simon & Simon (season 2) would be more interesting.  Or 
maybe a photo of Dwayne from Whats Happening with a thought balloon 
going, "hey HEY hey," mocking prospective domain purchasers with his stellar 
fro.  Maybe the Doobie Brothers with Jeff "Skunk" Baxter seriously urging us 
not to bootleg.  (Did you know he became a defense consultant?  How weird is 
that?)

Anyway I still use godaddy.com which others have complained about but I've had 
no problems at all.  Then again, I've never had to call them.  I've been able 
to do anything I need through their rather extensive domain interface and 
their support staff replies by e-mail within 24 hours.   I wouldn't say I'm, 
oh, "brand loyal" or something, any more than I'm brand loyal to, say, 
butter, but I've had no reason to switch, and I've moved domains around quite 
a lot, and haven't had any problems.

I did want to register a South Georgia Island (.gs) domain, just to be 
contrarian and exotic, but last I looked, they wanted $99 for 2 years for 
this ghetto domain (in my case, I'm a Shackleton / South Atlantic junkie, 
which is the nerdy allure.  Hey, we all have our hobbies).  I'm surprised 
what some registrars get in other parts of the world.

 -Quag7