Thumbing our noses at the ones that make the laws...

[jacal1]

I posted a similar thread earlier, but now I feel stronger...reading below I think domainers who do this are daring the politicians in the U.S. who make our laws to hurt our industry.


Obama-Biden Web site on sale for $100,000
Posted: 04:00 PM ET

From CNN's Josh Levs

(CNN) – The Obama campaign has succeeded partly through astute, unprecedented use of the Internet. But some of the most obvious Web site domain names for the Obama-Biden ticket might not actually belong to the campaign anytime soon — if ever.

After hearing about Obama's selection for his number-two slot, anyone who tried to surf to obamabiden.org was re-directed to an eBay page selling that domain name for a starting bid of $100,000.

As of 6:30 p.m. ET, there were no bids listed.

The same seller lists 15 similar domain names up for sale, including obama-biden.com, obama-biden.org, and obamabiden-08.com.

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[shockie]

squatters make the rest of us look bad, and just encourage more newbules to enter the industry and further the vicious cycle... :td:

 

[duodec]

It would have been trivially easy (and not that expensive) for the Obama campaign to register the most obvious domains for the likely picks early on. Could have even done it through a trusted proxy to prevent it from providing info to the press or speculators.

I wonder if McCain's camp is being proactive...