The Future of CyberSquatting

[Falian]

Maybe its just me, but its obvious that good domain names are going fast, and there will be nil left in a matter of years. But will ICANN require some key domains to be put to proper use?

Cyber Squatting/Parking Revenue is a good way to make money, but, for example, should someone wishing to develop fish.com get preference over someone using it to get parked revenue?

I mean, this wont happen for many, many years. But do you really want to see the internet full of parked junk? I would rather see quality domains with relavent domain names.

 

[GreenGambler]

Anything is possible. I can see them giving DN owners a set time limit to have a relevant website for their domain name.

Nobody likes to be made to have to do anything, if that makes sense. I don't think this would ever happen. :imho: but you never know....

 

[Premium]

NO!!! :tu: You buy a home, do whatever you want with it and nobody tells you what you can or can't do with it. You buy a domain, why should a domain be any different? You own it and you are free to do whatever you want with it.

 

[Falian]

Not Necessarilly. If you own a home in a Home Owners Association area, they have the right to convict you if you don't comply to their standerds.

I mean seriously, what if there was an adult type site on Horse.com, or something generic like that, im sure people would protest that in a heartbeat.

 

[HBK216]

Protest it they may but if the owner brought & paid for it, why should he/she have to answer to anyone in terms of what they do with it.

 

[dvestors]

Cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.

 

[SpareDomains]

I agree that the internet would be nicer looking with developed sites instead of tons of parked pages, but first come, first serve, you buy a piece of real estate and sit on it for ten years, then a developer wishes to build townhomes on it and you make a nice profit, that falls into the categories of business, investing, and speculation. Domain names are the piece of land, webmasters are the developers, consider domains internet real estate, if you have a website idea go buy the domain or plot of land, if someone has beaten you to it, be ready to pay for the previous maintenance for that land which includes previous years of registration fees, marketing of the domain, and the brains to speculate on a good domain name before that end user came looking for it, if you bought a brand new 1964 chevy impala and parked it in your garage for 42 years and pulled it out in 2006 it's value has increased substantially, should it be taken away because you never drive it? I don't think so, if you pay for it it's yours to do whatever you wish with it, whether you use it or sit on it for investment purposes, tons of items are sat on for investment purposes cars, real estate, jewelry, etc... domains are no different, if it's paid for it's nobody's business but the owner's in what they wish to do with it. They will never take me or my domains alive :hehe:
my comments are directed at buying domains as an investment and parking them and not a defense for cybersquatting.

 

[matt_bodis]

I'm moving my domain business model into cybersquatting. Less work, you don't have to strugge to sell a domain, and you make profit without maintenance.

It's better than revenue websites, better than anything.

 

[loscocco]

Businesses will always come and go and names will change hands and i dont see cybersquatting going away as there are always new domain names being created as new terms and names are created.

 

[TestCase]

I would rather see quality domains with relavent domain names.

Define "quality". Define "relevant".

Beauty will always be in the eye of the beholder.

Who here wants someone telling them that their development idea isn't good enough for the domain name they would like to put it on?

To paraphrase one of my favorite slogans (and I'm not even a gun owner),

"I'll give up my domain when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers."

Just my 2 cents...

 

[homebuyer]

Sue 'em all

ICANN has no contractual authority to place such content-based restrictions on domains. If they ever tried to do so, I would argue that my payment of the $.25 ICANN fee makes me either a party to the contract between ICANN and the DOC, or a third party beneficiary of the contract, and I'd sue them for breach of contract, among other things.

 

[equity78]

First off to the op Learn what the definition of Cybersquatting is, Secondly because the domain is developed means what Maybe as a designer you suck I see lots of developed sites that suck WHO is to tell anyone what to do with their names ? Secondly PPC pages will continue to develop to look more like a developed site. SO no for all the Jealous johhny come lately's no one is going to tell anyone what to do with their DOMAIN. NICE TRY

 

[verbster]

Zowie.

 

[briman1970]

Not Necessarilly. If you own a home in a Home Owners Association area, they have the right to convict you if you don't comply to their standerds.

I mean seriously, what if there was an adult type site on Horse.com, or something generic like that, im sure people would protest that in a heartbeat.

ICANN won't do anything in addition to what they are doing now. Which is not much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.com

 

[psalzmann]

This entire domain industry is a scam. I'm surprised to see NO LAW against squatting .. or is there?

If so, let me know, since someone is holding my .com as ransom and wants $20K for it. The other side to it is the person who owns my domain name bought my software as well. So not only is this some domain squatter, he is a client who seems to have a "best interest" for HIS FUTURE using my trading name. I'm not only a business, we recently Incorporated few months ago. To me that sounds like a Bad Faith situation. Any views on this?

 

[binaryman]

Well there are various reasons why you could threaten to take him to court unless he agrees to some sort of out of court settlement. Reasons such as you having trademark rights for instance.If you win the courtcase he will be forced to hand over the domain to you. If he has no rights to the name and you have trademark rights he might want to settle out of court for an agreeable price. First off though before you start being threatening you might want to make him a reasonable and friendly offer and settle it so that everybody is happy.
Here is an interesting site that deals with such cases
http://www.intelproplaw.com/Forum/Forum.cgi
Scroll down to "Domain Name Forum"

 

[Flaresolutions]

This entire domain industry is a scam. I'm surprised to see NO LAW against squatting .. or is there?

If so, let me know, since someone is holding my .com as ransom and wants $20K for it. The other side to it is the person who owns my domain name bought my software as well. So not only is this some domain squatter, he is a client who seems to have a "best interest" for HIS FUTURE using my trading name. I'm not only a business, we recently Incorporated few months ago. To me that sounds like a Bad Faith situation. Any views on this?

Could you give more information on this domain? Is the domain generic? It is not your .com necessarily. It depends on when the person registered the domain and just because you incorporated a few months ago, dont think you'll win anything. If the person owned the domain before you created your business, you are essentially trying to reverse hijack the domain off of them. Your the one acting in bad faith if this is the case.

 

[FanCube]

This entire domain industry is a scam. I'm surprised to see NO LAW against squatting .. or is there?

If so, let me know, since someone is holding my .com as ransom and wants $20K for it. The other side to it is the person who owns my domain name bought my software as well. So not only is this some domain squatter, he is a client who seems to have a "best interest" for HIS FUTURE using my trading name. I'm not only a business, we recently Incorporated few months ago. To me that sounds like a Bad Faith situation. Any views on this?

If you believe you have a right to a specific domain and the domain is important to you can you try your case at WIPO. You can get more info here: http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/

 

[Goss]

I mean seriously, what if there was an adult type site on Horse.com, or something generic like that, im sure people would protest that in a heartbeat.

That reminds me of WhiteHouse.com That site is still running strong and survived the protests when it was started.

 

[Flaresolutions]

That reminds me of WhiteHouse.com That site is still running strong and survived the protests when it was started.

Maybe because Briman has already noted this about 6 posts up? And whitehouse.com is in a grey area now, according to wiki the U.S government didnt make a move on it. It is now an American community discussion. Check up next time..