[ NNSquad ] Re: Massive cybersquatting suit win for Verizon

[Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>]

On Dec 25, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
> Massive cybersquatting suit win for Verizon:


This problem is not going to be solved until domains are priced at  
something closer to value. Even bumping prices to $25 or $50 would  
probably destroy the economics of cybersquatting without having a  
serious impact on regular domain holders.
Kee Hinckley
CEO/CTO Somewhere Inc.
Somewhere: http://www.somewhere.com/
TechnoSocial: http://xrl.us/bh35i
I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to  
accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager  
to regulate those of everybody else.

    [ Say what?  From the standpoint of ordinary, honest users,
      domain names are already overpriced, particularly by certain
      major registrars.  I'm not going to dig in here to the
      economics at various levels of the domain name ecosystem.  But
      as far as I'm concerned, bumping up the prices would have the
      likely triple-play effect of simultaneously harming consumers,
      failing to impact dedicated cybersquatters, and making more
      outrageous domain name profits for the usual suspects.

      A key problem related to cybersquatting and other illicit use
      of domains isn't the price of domain names, it's the lax
      policies related to registrars, which in some cases have
      allowed registrars to exist who themselves are crooks in league
      with spammers or worse.

         -- Lauren Weinstein
            NNSquad Moderator ]