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.

 

[Mark]

I registered on youchoose, and it allowed me to vote in opposition.

Yep - Worked then .....

Like I really want more spam - I dont recall ever signing up for Internetseer , But probably get 5 or 6 emails a day from them

 

[Lasher]

The whole petition is just dumb. As for "use", the minute the government declares that having something exist for the sole purpose of advertising is not a valid "use", there goes the media business, and the billboard business, and most magazines, and all AM/FM radio. At least this would stop those junk newspapers that get thrown on my driveway every other day!

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Registered and still getting:

OOPS!

The page was not found or the action has caused an error.

An error log has already been sent to a YouChoose support team member to be reviewed.

At this time, please try one of the following:

* If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly
* Open the www.youchoose.net home page and look for links to the information you want
* Use the Search box to find the information you are looking for on the YouChoose site.
* Click the Back button to try again as it may have been a temporary error

Help- Find out answers to the most frequently asked questions. Click here to visit the help desk

I have to give them credit for being the first to tell me my host went down (some time ago), but this is not in the best interest of the whole internet community, much less their principal customer base...

-Allan

 

[Broker]

Dear InternetSeer and YouChoose,


We are the owners of the following domain names.

DomainersBusiness.com
DomainerBiz.com
DomainersBiz.com


We would like to offer these currently parked domains for sale to your companies. If you wish to make an educated offer for these domains as a package sale, please feel free to do so with the links provided.

A buy it now price for the package has been set at $10,500 for immediate purchase and ownership.

Thanks for your time,
CyberSquatMan

:hehe:

 

[Virgil]

Let these absurd demands prosper, and next thing you know, anyone with development plans and $$ will take away your undeveloped real estate.

Uh... wait a minute...

 

[briman1970]

Dear InternetSeer and YouChoose,

We are the owners of the following domain names.

DomainersBusiness.com
DomainerBiz.com
DomainersBiz.com

We would like to offer these currently parked domains for sale to your companies. If you wish to make an educated offer for these domains as a package sale, please feel free to do so with the links provided.

A buy it now price for the package has been set at $10,500 for immediate purchase and ownership.

Thanks for your time,
CyberSquatMan

:hehe:

Please oh please Rob, tell me you actually sent this to them! :lol:

 

[binaryman]

Petition Launched Against Domain Name Parking

This could spell bad news for domainers.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/youchoose_against_domain_name_parking/

 

[Dave_Z]

Where it all began:

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/339829-petition-against-cybersquatting.html

 

[kemjika11]

Sounds like a little movement there, but i don't think it will be able to weather the storm and come out victorious. There are so many domain being parked, and all sorts of people are profiting from it. Ok lets take me for example. I own 30 domain names. All my domains might be parked, but i could be "wating to do something with them" like make a website etc, so its really gonna be hard for them to completely stop domain parking. They will lose. period.

 

[pixelbugnyc]

every time i hear news like this i keep reminding myself that domains are virtual real estate and should be treated as such. as a real estate owner, i can either live in the property (develop a site) or rent it out (parking/lease) or sell it (T.R.A.F.F.I.C.). the handling of domains is exactly the same.

people who protest against parking domains and MISLABEL the term squatters, are simply put ticked off for missing out and miss educated in my opinion.

 

[Dotmainer]

i cant belive that so many ppl are so stupid

there are so many services that can be used on domain name,
but most think if there is no website its unused :lol:

... like email, ftp, private networks, news ... and more

 

[FagEnd]

Domain parking is annoying though.

I am a domain parker myself, but I still get pissed off when I visit a type in site only to find a parked page (usually because I want the domain LOL)

I know instantly which parking company it is cos I use them all too LOL

I suppose folks not in this industry would not instantly recognise a parked page, otherwise all our revenues would plummit.

 

[Makis.TV]

sooner or later i think domain parking will change

 

[FagEnd]

need to register to oppose???

that is just wrong!!!

 

[whitebark]

I can sense their frustration though. This is how I came to the domain investment community - looking for domain names to develop because all the good ones were gone. But instead of whining about it, I embraced it and now profit from it.

 

[alanchau]

... to ensure that a domain names that are parked would be available for sale at a price tag that would not be considered extortion.

So basically they want to force domain owners to sell their properties at sub-market prices to accommodate them simply because they can't afford it.

 

[HookShot]

I can sense their frustration though. This is how I came to the domain investment community - looking for domain names to develop because all the good ones were gone. But instead of whining about it, I embraced it and now profit from it.

Exactly. And as one member above pointed out, domains are virtual real estate. Parking a domain is just like buying prime real estate and leasing it out while working on increasing it's value to resell it at a profit.

 

[cera]

Update:
Now 621 votes 'for' the petition.
Actually there were 200+ before the wording was changed.
YouChoose sent me an email to advise that they have fixed it so wording of petitions can't be changed once finally posted.
Of course they didn't discount all the votes made prior to the change.

 

[RCK]

I can sense their frustration though. This is how I came to the domain investment community - looking for domain names to develop because all the good ones were gone. But instead of whining about it, I embraced it and now profit from it.

Same here!

 

[Domaingenius]

I agree that organizations and institutions like ICANN should end with the wesite park industrie. Website park industry is destroying internet quality. Perhaps more then 25% of the internet pages are parked. I thiink that ICANN sould make all this parked pages public to all people... I think that we have to change the internet and how is internet today. To much parked sites, to much domainers with just intentios of make money. Internet should be a free space and not a space where some people buy evrything....I hate when i want to make a new project and i see that a domainer resgisted that name just for sell it or make profits with parked programs... I think that each people just could have 5 domains registed at same time... It is impossible today to find a good domain name for a project without paid somu $$$$ to some domainrs....

Sorry but this is the true about parked sites end domainers.