Re: co.za domain parking question
Colin Alston <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Barry Gill <[email protected]> wrote: > That is different to this how? > Is it reprehensible? > While I WANT to agree, I just can't. > > You know what, 419 scams are also a business, and a big one at that. And so is email spam. Domain squatting has a real cost effect on businesses IMHO even if it's a somewhat artificial resource, but we're always shunning one behaviour and not another based on the level of pain it causes rather than a consistent standard of business practice. You could argue something like degrees of right towards a domain like http://mango.co.za/, but when the reason for a domain conflict is one parties desire to deliberately cause that conflict and profit from it in the first place I'm hard pressed to agree with it. Either way, you'll never convince me that a co.za domain is a necessity for a business. Kulula, SAA and many other SA businesses at least seem to agree even if they have co.za redirects. In the days of Google are people honestly still bashing random domain names into their address bar and then looking distraught when they land in the wrong place? At least 80% of non-technical people I speak to don't realise immediately that domain appendages have any significance at all let alone geographic. _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz