Petition against cybersquatting

[cera]

Received the following from Internetseer, the site monitoring company, today.

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Dear InternetSeer Subscriber:

InternetSeer urges you to sign our online petition to stop domain name parking (also known as Cybersquatting). You can read and sign the petition at YouChoose.net.

What is Cybersquatting?

Did you ever try to get a domain name for your business, only to find that it was already taken - but not being legitimately used. The owner is engaged in cybersquatting! The cybersquatters grab the domain names and often resell them for hundreds, or even thousands of dollars. This practice is rampant and makes it almost impossible for you to get good domain names for legitimate purposes. Sign the Petition to end this practice.

Thank you in advance for taking action.
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Guess I'll be cancelling my free monitoring service with them.

 

[.X.]

I think domain parking has been on the ropes for quite a while now, I expect in the new year or two, it will totally faze out, There are much better alternatives any way, 1Pus.net, WhyPark.com and the upcoming launch of of NP's member "Badgers" iMODO site, I stopped parking a while back, i use whypark, and couldn't be happier, perhaps it's time to say good bye to domain parking.

 

[labrocca]

Oh how contrary I like being but I am voting FOR this. The internet is about sites and the value of parking is minimal to the value of the internet. While I do use parking companies....I would have ZERO problems with Sedo and others being SHUT DOWN for good. They add no value to the average internet user.

 

[labrocca]

I signed up and voted for this. One only has to look at the patterns to see the problems. Iphone mania...go find out how many parked pages there are at Sedo with iphone in it.


"Your search returned 2334 matching domains:"

Here are perfect examples of squatting.

iphonefree.com and iphoneifree.com

The class action lawsuits are coming. ICANN, Sedo, Google, and just about every parking company will be named as a defendant. They have all allowed squatting to be a profitable venture. While it may not be possible to stop registration of TM domains....you shouldn't as a company be encouraging nor rewarding it and certainly not profiting by it. That's EXACTLY what is happening now.

 

[Mark]

http://youchoose.net/pledge/stop_communists_from_throwing_their_feces

http://youchoose.net/pledge/stamp_out_professional_jealousy

LMAO

Seems someone is having a bit of fun with their system now ~

 

[kemjika11]

i am not signing any cybersquatting petition. to hell with that

 

[briman1970]

Oh how contrary I like being but I am voting FOR this. The internet is about sites and the value of parking is minimal to the value of the internet. While I do use parking companies....I would have ZERO problems with Sedo and others being SHUT DOWN for good. They add no value to the average internet user.

Jesse... you so crazy!