Comments on: I want that domain! http://niquimerret.com/?p=78 Changing tracks... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:14:17 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Helmut Granda http://niquimerret.com/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-1662 Helmut Granda Fri, 18 May 2007 14:21:16 +0000 http://niquimerret.com/?p=78#comment-1662 Did you all forget already about Mike Row and how Microsoft made him give up his domain? http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/ Did you all forget already about Mike Row and how Microsoft made him give up his domain?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/

]]> By: Niqui Merret http://niquimerret.com/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-1507 Niqui Merret Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:42:45 +0000 http://niquimerret.com/?p=78#comment-1507 @wetwebwork I completely agree with your point about hoover.com. I also agree that southafrica.com does not automatically belong to South Africa. <blockquote>mirrors the ‘real world’ practice of supermarkets buying up land that could potentially be used by comptitors, and doing nothing with it.</blockquote> Just because people do it does not make it acceptable or ethical. If people and companies were well behaved then we would not have to have legal systems and police. Unfortunately it seems to be the way of the world. I think the first step is to create more awareness. @wetwebwork

I completely agree with your point about hoover.com. I also agree that southafrica.com does not automatically belong to South Africa.

mirrors the ‘real world’ practice of supermarkets buying up land that could potentially be used by comptitors, and doing nothing with it.

Just because people do it does not make it acceptable or ethical. If people and companies were well behaved then we would not have to have legal systems and police. Unfortunately it seems to be the way of the world. I think the first step is to create more awareness.

]]> By: keith http://niquimerret.com/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-1491 keith Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:21:13 +0000 http://niquimerret.com/?p=78#comment-1491 That is interesting Niqui, i didnt know about domain tasting, though i'd heard many stories from that days of old about typing domain names into registrars and then subsequently finding that domain just so happens to be registered by someone working for the registrar!! The whole thing is a frustrating business, especially, as you say, when all they're doing is sitting on the domain with advertising, and not even using it for anything constructive. I've got the same problem with keith.com. Something worth having a read through is this article by Mike Davidson: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain That is interesting Niqui, i didnt know about domain tasting, though i’d heard many stories from that days of old about typing domain names into registrars and then subsequently finding that domain just so happens to be registered by someone working for the registrar!!

The whole thing is a frustrating business, especially, as you say, when all they’re doing is sitting on the domain with advertising, and not even using it for anything constructive.

I’ve got the same problem with keith.com.

Something worth having a read through is this article by Mike Davidson:

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain

]]> By: wetwebwork http://niquimerret.com/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-1490 wetwebwork Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:05:35 +0000 http://niquimerret.com/?p=78#comment-1490 While it's frustrating, I agree that someone who buys hoover.com (to perhaps chronicle their obsession with the dam) shouldn't have to fight off a vacuum company that thinks it automatically has the right to that domain. The 'domain tasting' is new to me as well, and mirrors the 'real world' practice of supermarkets buying up land that could potentially be used by comptitors, and doing nothing with it. While it’s frustrating, I agree that someone who buys hoover.com (to perhaps chronicle their obsession with the dam) shouldn’t have to fight off a vacuum company that thinks it automatically has the right to that domain. The ‘domain tasting’ is new to me as well, and mirrors the ‘real world’ practice of supermarkets buying up land that could potentially be used by comptitors, and doing nothing with it.

]]> By: Anja http://niquimerret.com/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-1472 Anja Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:02:08 +0000 http://niquimerret.com/?p=78#comment-1472 South Africa ended up suing, costing them a fortune, because some enterprising company had bought the name of www.southafrica.com. I think South Africa lost actually and ended up taking their case to Switzerland to try and negotiate a deal. I think they still didn't make it. So if a domain name for a country isn't sacret, what is. On the other hand, why should people with some kind of future vision, not benefit, when a country can't be bothered to secure their own domain name, because they are too narrow minded to get it that the internet is here to stay and will grow. South Africa ended up suing, costing them a fortune, because some enterprising company
had bought the name of http://www.southafrica.com.
I think South Africa lost actually and ended up taking their case to Switzerland to try and negotiate a deal. I think they still didn’t make it. So if a domain name for a country isn’t sacret, what is. On the other hand, why should people with some kind of future vision, not benefit, when a country can’t be bothered to secure their own domain name, because they are too narrow minded to get it that the internet is here to stay and will grow.

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