Re: Petition against DNS squatting

> sol gongola [[email protected]] wrote:
>> My issue with this is that speculation usually involves a certain amount
>> of not-insubstantial
>> risk that the price of item the may fall. In squatting, your purchase
>> price is fixed and minimal to
>> the point where you know exactly what the maximal loss is ($10  per
>> domain or less) and you
>> pretty much know that what you are buying will be of interest to someone
>> because it has the
>> name of some entity that would want to use that domain name or would
>> want to prevent
>> someone else from using the name.
>
>
> Do not confuse speculation of generic domain names with squatting.
>
> With domain squatting, a person deliberately registers domains which are
> trademarks of others. There is already a mechanism in place to return
> trademarked domains to their rightful owners - it's called UDRP.
>
> Also, when companies do business on abstract trademarks, like Apple
> Computer, there is nothing they can do if an apple farm beats them to
> registering apple.com and uses it to sell fruit. Use it to sell computers,
> though, and you are wrong (unless you are Apple Computers).
>
> With typo-squatting, a person registers typos of trademarks, and they can
> also be taken away with UDRP.
>
> But registering typo domains of generic domain names, for example
> shurts.com instead of shirts.com, there is nothing wrong with that. That's
> just a risk a business must take when they decide to do business on a
> generic name instead of branding themselves.
>
>
> Summary: The UDRP works. Nothing further is needed.
>
> --
> mike
>

Did you know that for you to file a complaint in an approved provider for
Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, such as the World
Intellectual Property Organization, in the case you're filing a number of
1 to 5 domain disputes, which is associated to the lowest fee, you will
have to pay US$1500?
Cheaper to just bend over, pay the squatter that has just turned "your"
expired domain into an "amazing search engine" or has a banner stating
that the domain is for sale for a sum that usually goes from $150 to $200,
at best, and say thank you in the end.

True that it might work for a corporation, but what about the rest of us
mortals? It completely beats the purpose of having access to cheap (<$10)
new domains on registrars.


Regards,

Hugo Monteiro.