Those TLDs are just a backdoor for hackers, marketers, and trademark abusers. They don’t serve the vast majority of the Internet users in a positive way! That’s why somebody needs to take action! Yeah, many businesses will have to shut down, but the abuse has to stop!

For example, without a TLD, what’s the difference between pepsi-germany, pepsi-de and pepsi.de? I think most people get the dash better than the dot, which is a totally a geek’s thing.

There is, unfortunately, a group of people in the domain industry registering and making money from trademark-infringing domains. Those people are often difficult to get hold of, because they’re based in certain countries around the globe where it might be more difficult to take legal actions against them.

But I can assure you that those serious about their businesses agree that cybersquatting/typosquatting is a practice that must be stopped as soon as possible.

Don’t knock it. I once registered “buySalviaDivinorum.com” for 7.50 and sold for $36. It’s a linguistic challenge to flip these things.

Honestly, most of us think it’s every bit as much of a moneygrab as TechCrunch. This kind of stuff is shady and cybersquatters investing in it give domain investors a bad name…

Hmm… looks like you can bid on gems like bidmicrosoft.com at Pool along with plenty of other trademark cybersquatter names.

Im from Cameroon, and registring a domain there cost about US$300.

I’m all for registering generic .cm names that might get traffic (like Soccer.cm, Football.cm – totally legit), but trademarks are a big no no.