Domain squatters, that is. Squatters, campers - whatever you want to call them.
There's a site I'd like to develop, but I need a name for it. A short, snappy, memorable, relevant name - that has an appropriate domain name available. Every single idea that I or anybody else who's tried has come up with has been taken by domain squatters. Some of them have the cheek to ask ludicrous amounts of money for these domains - such as one boasting a whopping 1 hit per month, which wanted USD$1650, with a minimum/reserve price of USD$1000. Others are spammy search portals, and still others simply leave it to languish with no accessible website on them.
Why is this allowed to happen? Why are these bastards allowed to register these domain names, and then not do anything of any use with them - especially those who are trying to sell them? This is completely ludicrous, as it's really no different to buying a sandwich and then offering it to people for a hundred times the price - other than the fact that you can easily by another sandwich which will do the exact same job, at the same price that the other person bought theirs for.
I believe that there should be some kind of regulation, perhaps administered by a body such as IANA, whereby the registration is revoked on any domain name which is registered and then attempted to be on-sold without a site first being established. The same should also apply for any domain name which is used solely for spammy search portals, and perhaps also domains which are not pointed anywhere (and not used for mail, etc) for a certain period. It would probably be far too labour-intensive to have this body check all domains, so it would be best run on a reporting basis - if you find a domain that you'd like to register, and it's taken by a squatter, you report it and they investigate; the registrant then has a chance to defend their right to registration, and if they can't prove that they have legitimate cause to have the domain name, it is revoked and the reporter may register it.
For crying out loud, even domainsquatters.com is taken - by a domain squatter - as are cybersquatter.net and cybersquatters.net.
There's a site I'd like to develop, but I need a name for it. A short, snappy, memorable, relevant name - that has an appropriate domain name available. Every single idea that I or anybody else who's tried has come up with has been taken by domain squatters. Some of them have the cheek to ask ludicrous amounts of money for these domains - such as one boasting a whopping 1 hit per month, which wanted USD$1650, with a minimum/reserve price of USD$1000. Others are spammy search portals, and still others simply leave it to languish with no accessible website on them.
Why is this allowed to happen? Why are these bastards allowed to register these domain names, and then not do anything of any use with them - especially those who are trying to sell them? This is completely ludicrous, as it's really no different to buying a sandwich and then offering it to people for a hundred times the price - other than the fact that you can easily by another sandwich which will do the exact same job, at the same price that the other person bought theirs for.
I believe that there should be some kind of regulation, perhaps administered by a body such as IANA, whereby the registration is revoked on any domain name which is registered and then attempted to be on-sold without a site first being established. The same should also apply for any domain name which is used solely for spammy search portals, and perhaps also domains which are not pointed anywhere (and not used for mail, etc) for a certain period. It would probably be far too labour-intensive to have this body check all domains, so it would be best run on a reporting basis - if you find a domain that you'd like to register, and it's taken by a squatter, you report it and they investigate; the registrant then has a chance to defend their right to registration, and if they can't prove that they have legitimate cause to have the domain name, it is revoked and the reporter may register it.
For crying out loud, even domainsquatters.com is taken - by a domain squatter - as are cybersquatter.net and cybersquatters.net.
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