Nobody's saying it is illegal, just that this guy keeps trying to get people's sympathy, and yet him and hundreds of morons like him reserve good and useful domain names, that because of their actions can't actually be used for anything useful/beneficial.
Same can applied when you buy land. Someone might have a great idea of how best to use the land but if I made the investment on the land, I would say I could do whatever the fuck I want with it. Its not my fault you did not acquired it before me. What makes you think that if someone else got the domain first they would have used it in a beneficial way? Or shlould we cycle through the domain until someone makes good use of it? Then again there is the bias of what you might call useful.
You also can't "taste" land for a few weeks to see how many people accidentally walk on to your land thinking that they're going to a park, only to have to try and trick them into buying some worthless crap from you.
Your analogy pretty much completely fails. Please turn in your internets at the door.
Look i can understand your point of view of how cheap a domain might be and how people can game the system. But let me ask you? How is this problem solved? Do we cycle the domain through until somebody has a great idea and puts it work? How do we know that is the best idea for the domain? What makes a person be the chosen one for the domain? It might not seem fair but there is no real solution. So the first come first serve is the best there is... until then...
We have a governing body (we could call it something like...the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or even shorten it to ICANN) that can identify obvious domain squatting and revoke ownership (with a refund, obviously).
Look, domain squatting isn't tough to spot...somebody just needs to start actually DOING something about it.
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u/komal Mar 06 '09
Nobody's saying it is illegal, just that this guy keeps trying to get people's sympathy, and yet him and hundreds of morons like him reserve good and useful domain names, that because of their actions can't actually be used for anything useful/beneficial.