Domains are not real estate, they are RENEWABLE LEASES that may be renewed up to 10 years out.

I’ve just had a domain squatter try to command an exorbitant price for a domain that I want, and quite frankly I’m sick to death of it.

http://www.3ac....domain-squatter

Does anyone agree?

http://blog.jilbab.eu

Shortly, many major corporations will be launching .me promotions such as apple and others. This is the time to get in to .me while it’s still relatively young. It’s all about You and .me

Domaining is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names.

You really should understand the difference if you plan to write about either.

BUT, he bashes the domaining investors such as, of Marchex and Demand Media — what gives Arrington?

First the owner of tech crunch can push all these questionable names, questionable practices at pool and now he is mr perfect and calling domainers squatters.

Hidden motives behind things like this imo.

The .tv extension is the real deal. Tell TNT.tv this and they will laugh. Tell that Justin.tv as well.

What a joke. That’s why .tv in 08 continues to grow, sales, registration growth is growing, fortune 500 are supporting .tv extension. The .tv extension is the next wave of the future and I’m proud to be a part of it, developing Things and video.

Wake up and and smell the coffee tech crunch.

-> The time it took to add a wildcard into the root

How much does Verizons and other ISPs wildcarding cost?

-> Costs nothing, actually makes money

How much does Microsoft’s Internet Explorer cost to capture error taffic and monitize it?

-> Costs nothing, actually makes money. In effect Microsoft is one of the worlds biggest typosquater via IE error traffic redirection ….. This is also why they want typosquating ended since that traffic (lack of domain registrations) then get monitized by THEIR BROWSER.

Why do PC manufactures want to customized the installed browser and the new PC’s they sell?

-> To redirect the traffic away from Microsoft and ISP to monitize it themselves thus generating huge recuring revenue after the original sale.

That’s why this will happen, so take your pick; ICANN or a free market. So in fact it’s not a matter of “will happen”, per the many examples above it has happened and continues to happen. New TLDs in effect give Brands the abilty to control it by branding at the TLD, for example.

Domains are not real estate, they are RENEWABLE LEASES that may be renewed up to 10 years out.

it’s okay Squatters come and Squatz all ur $$ money ahaha, here some extensions ideas .me, .tv .your, .mind, .notmind, .yourmomma, .Squatters, .dudewheresmycar LOL

If u don’t have extension .com then save ur $$$ and get a life…

Aside from the fact that it looks like you cut and pasted your entire post from one of those spammy “how to become a millionaire in 5 hours by trading domains” websites, you did nothing other than say: “FACT — YOU CAN MAKE A BAZILLION DOLLARS TRADING DOMAIN NAMES, DONT YOU GET IT YOU MORONS??”

I am very proud and excited for you that you’ve found something to be so passionate about, really. (You’ll be getting your jollies off as they create each and every “.noun” TLD that is understood in several languages, while I’ll still think you are scum). I just wish it was something that could be respected in any other terms than “it makes you money.”

funny how tech crunch founder made a bundle of cash off domain, trademarked domains and sold tons of questionable domains to domainers…but yet no one looks at his ethics

“what goes around, goes around”

domainers and are hard working people and not all of us are bad people…. come on, learn what the domain community stands for before you do a silly post

1. Taxes/Fees. Yes, squattors (or speculators, whatever), have to pay barely significant recurring fees. What you missed was where that money goes and also how much that is. I’d be less upset if the money somehow went to improve the internet, or something of benefit to the “neighborhood,” but it doesn’t. It instead lines pockets. Second, the amount of the recurring fee is like $6/yr (probably less when you buy 100,000 domains a year), and has nothing to do with the “property value.” If a speculator wants to try and sell a domain name for $50,000, maybe he should have to pay a larger recurring fee than $6/yr while he holds on to it.

2. Limited Space. Yeah, ok, so there are domain name limits (namely: 63 alpha/numeric/- characters). Short names, and names with actual words in them, of course *are* limited. At this point, “speculating” scum have probably bought out every sensical two word combination. But the point was that new TLDs can be created out of thin air.. there’s no limit to how many “.whatevers” you can create, unless you want to get into browser-specific maximum url limits. But that number would be too long to type in this comment box.

3. Zoning. Squattors, speculators, whatever, put useless “relevant” search results that are absolute crap. And if they’re squatting a typo of a domain or some permutation, the search results are about what you were looking for in the first place. That’s like building cities around “New York” called “New_York” “Nu York” “New-York” and pretending like they are New York (and profiting from that).

4. Agreed that the “grace period” is complete shit. Also, shitheads like GoDaddy that take your search results and then hold that domain hostage after 24hours. That’s like spying on property purveyors then snatching their prospect after they turn around for a minute. It’s bad enough they automate registering permutations, but to have their own patrons generate which domains they should sit on is sickening.

@p and @gfy: you two should totally hook up.