Re: Petition against DNS squatting

[email protected] wrote:
> Hugo Monteiro [[email protected]] wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Yes, I am aware of the fees. If you have enough money to register 
> trademarks, or a business need to have trademarks in the first place, 
> then this amount of money is small peanuts. Blame ICANN for 
> perpetuating the TM tax by rolling out a thousand and fifty new domain 
> extensions... They need to fund their meetings in top Paris hotels and 
> such, you know.
>
>
>> 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.
>
> If you have a trademark and run a business on a trademarked domain 
> name, then you'd be pretty lazy and I'd say downright negligent to 
> just let it expire. Especially since you can renew domains up to 10 
> years out and that would only run you $70 to $100. Darwin just popped 
> into my mind, for some odd reason...
>
>
>> 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.
>
> What completely beats the purpose?  Are you upset because you were too 
> lazy to renew your trademarked domain? Or are you upset that there 
> aren't any good generic domains left for you to register at $10 a pop 
> because people have hoarded all them for resale? Which is it?
>
> Sounds like a case of sour grapes to me.
>
>
> -- 
> mike
>

It is indeed, in part, one of those cases. Anyway there's been a little 
update that you, and everyone else interested in this kind of affairs, 
may find at least intriguing.

I had 3 domains that expired, let's call them domA.com, domB.com and 
domC.com. At first i did try to come to a fair ground of negotiation 
about one of the domains, domA.com, and soon i realized that i wouldn't 
be able to call them to reason. So i just stopped the quest for the 
other 2 domains. "I might as well try next year. They might drop it or 
sell it at lower price since their really domains that i'm pretty sure 
noone else is interested" - I thought.

Today, a friend of mine was asking me about the petition, and as i was 
explaining, i did a whois query for domB.com. "NO MATCH FOUND" was the 
answer to my surprise. Then i queried for domC.com which had the same 
response.

Just for kicks i went to one the registrars i usually use, and i 
successfully re-registered both domB.com and domC.com. To my "not so 
much of a surprise", domA.com is still registered by the squatter, which 
in the most absolute coincidence was the only domain i showed any 
interest in.

All these amazing coincidences and facts only make me think that i'm 
dead right about the petition.

Also another question arises. How is it possible that both domB.com and 
domC.com showed in the whois database as registered and set to expire a 
year from now, and then suddenly their records just disapeared? I mean, 
how the hell is this possible!? Isn't this a "beyond reasonable doubt" 
evidence that what's going on with all these registrars and 
sub-sub-sub-registrars is a case of bullying and pure extortion?


I rest my case.


Regards,

Hugo Monteiro.


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