Cyber Squatters Should be Shot http://www.geek-rant.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:19:16 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc9 I agree with your sentiments. It is one thing to buy a domain and sit on it, due to a true intent to use it. It is totally another thing to buy a domain name just to make a quick buck. Did he really say that you confirmed the value of the domain? What an ass. Ted Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:00:38 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc11 Also what pisses me off is when you mistype a URL. For example, I put http://www.w3schools.org instead of http://www.w3schools.com and there\'s a damn squatter page with a spam search engine. Samuel Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:53:31 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc12 [quote=Samuel]Also what pisses me off is when you mistype a URL. For example, I put http://www.w3schools.org instead of http://www.w3schools.com and there\'s a damn squatter page with a spam search engine.[/quote] I agree. I hate that there\'s like 10 billion registered URLs that are nothing but adsense spam. Those of us who really COULD use those urls have to settle for crap names. Frank Thu, 03 May 2007 22:59:18 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc17 Out of curiosity, I just typed in www.codemonkey.com and I found this page: ---- Quote ---- This domain name for sale. Owner is looking for a well kept Carrera 4, Not Yellow. ---- End Quote ---- Then there\'s a link to some Carrera cars for like $60,000 each. Like I said above, I was willing to give up a couple hundred bucks for the domain, but this guy is just a nut! Rich Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:09:02 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc18 This is a business, a good generic would be held by a company if not a domainer as it has value. CodeMonkey i\'d value around 200 - 500 dollars, don\'t get ripped off by a bad salesman trying a party trick. Cybersquatting, according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. Domaining is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names. Such domain name portfolios often include cleverly chosen and highly marketable generic domain names, or domains whose registrations had lapsed yet still retain reasonable traffic. There is sometimes no actual intent to use any of the domain names with the exception of generating advertising revenue through domain parking. Domain names are the addresses of the web and come in a wide variety of extensions (.com being the most popular). The business needs regulation and the only way its going to get it, is if people start accepting and recognising it exists. Logic Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:15:55 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc21 The same can be said for patents, where people make up a bunch of crazy ideas that are similar to things that are already made, but their ideas are vague and open-ended, hoping that eventually someone will come up with an idea similar to theirs that actually works so they can get royalties for having the idea \'first\'... And who\'s to say that the website name is worth $500 or $50,000? It depends on who\'s going to use it for what. If Apple wanted to use it for their xCode site, it\'d be worth a lot of money to Apple, if someone like you just wants to use it for a personal site, then it\'s not worth much, but why should they sell it to you for less? And I agree, I wanted the website codemonkey.com for my oceanography matlab code, and it sucks that a squatter has it. Oh well... oceanographer Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:41:58 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc26 Nowadays trying to stand up a new brand is all but impossible. I have worked tirelessly for weeks now trying to conjure up new and original brand-ish names for the corporation I\'m trying to stand up only to be stopped in my tracks by some a-hole squatter... GAH! It\'s not fair, no, and like you I own many domains some that I don\'t use for websites but to have a domain name for an IP. I\'ll tell you a story though, about a year ago, I came up with a wicked idea(I won\'t divulge the domain as folks are still pissed) but it was being auctioned off, however, the registrar forgot to renew it and I snatched it for the low low price of $6.00USD. I was elated. Then the death threats and the like poured in my mailbox folks citing that I hacked the auction and stole the domain. Nope. Snagged it fair and square and am currently building a business identity off of it. I got lucky, real lucky.. I\'m so irritated at how much crap out there ISN\'T left... There needs to be some sort of way to weed these folks out... :upset Joe Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:01:53 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc32 I agree those domain squatters are shit, they are even less than shit. I think a rotten piece of shit would be the appropriate comparison. There is a simple solution to this problem. All domain selling and leasing should be declared a federal crime and punished with several years of jailtime. You can only register a domain with an accredited company. If you dont want it anymore you can give it back but selling it at a price higher than the registration price should be made illegal. This way all thats left for domain squatters is to go an get fucked. People who want to built up a legitimate useful website would be free to do so. Marm26 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:39:18 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/5/#josc34 My nickname has been \'DZ\' since I was in second grade, REALLY LONG STORY! One day I search up www.dz.com only to find a squatter page. I email the person asking how much he wanted for it, and he replied with \"domain not for sale\". And although he wasn\'t rude, I still found that rude anyway because what the hell is he going to do with it anyway other that display scam? I would have decorated it really nice and have used it as my own \'web presence\' kind of thing. Luckily I was able to register a domain that had already expired that ended up being better anyway, it was my full name. My email is now (ex. firstname.lastname@firstnamelastname.com) lol. Eventually all the domain names will be taken, and then what? A new top level domain will be made, .com2 or something stupid like that. Daniel Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:24:03 +0100