[Tfug] Domain names

[keith smith]

That is like telling me I should not buy land and set on it.  Perfectly legal.  And this is actually some peoples business plan.




John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote: 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, 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.

*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.
:)


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