discuss For the sale of RandPaul.com at $100k, TheVerge calls Domaining as Cybersquatting

[Arpit131]

TheVerge calls the art of domain flipping as Domain Squatting.

Here is the article that was published:

"Rand Paul's presidential campaign has already suffered an unfortunate outlay: a $100,980 ransom check for randpaul.com. The National Journal reports that Paul dropped the huge sum on a "domain name" days before he announced his campaign. Domain squatting, for those unfamiliar, is the art of sitting on potentially juicy domains, like pizza.com, and then selling them at astronomical prices — sometimes for millions of dollars.

A URL like randpaul.com is some real primo domain space that Paul probably felt he needed to have. His biggest competitor, Hillary Clinton, already owns hillaryclinton.com. But that hasn't stopped squatters from trying to cash in on her candidacy. The most expensive Clinton-related URL appears to be hillarynotpresident.com, which is currently on sale for $295,000.

The only thing more offensive than domain squatting is its other official name: "cybersquatting". No matter who wins in 2016, we hope their first act as president will be to eradicate this cyberjargon from cyberexistence."

Source: TheVerge, TheDomains

Seems like the author T.C.Sottek of TheVerge did not research properly before writing the post!
This is shameful!

 

[UltraNames.com]

TheVerge calls the art of domain flipping as Domain Squatting.

Here is the article that was published:

"Rand Paul's presidential campaign has already suffered an unfortunate outlay: a $100,980 ransom check for randpaul.com. The National Journal reports that Paul dropped the huge sum on a "domain name" days before he announced his campaign. Domain squatting, for those unfamiliar, is the art of sitting on potentially juicy domains, like pizza.com, and then selling them at astronomical prices — sometimes for millions of dollars.

A URL like randpaul.com is some real primo domain space that Paul probably felt he needed to have. His biggest competitor, Hillary Clinton, already owns hillaryclinton.com. But that hasn't stopped squatters from trying to cash in on her candidacy. The most expensive Clinton-related URL appears to be hillarynotpresident.com, which is currently on sale for $295,000.

The only thing more offensive than domain squatting is its other official name: "cybersquatting". No matter who wins in 2016, we hope their first act as president will be to eradicate this cyberjargon from cyberexistence."

Source: TheVerge, TheDomains

Seems like the author T.C.Sottek of TheVerge did not research properly before writing the post!
This is shameful!

Kk, i was sometimes posting Verge links. After now TechCrunch Rules

 

[Compassion]

What a fool of a writer to compare pizza.com with randpaul.com.

If he knew his stuff he could have discussed the RonPaul.com scenario - the buyer won it on ebay for $25k, built up tons of traffic, designed great content that benefited the campaign, and when the owner wanted $250k for it from Ron, Ron sent his legal team after him....

What happened since then?

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It appears the owner who built it up still has it and is posting fresh content.