Has anyone read the infuriating artice from NPR about us "Cyber-squatters"

[floname]

Unfortunately I do not think the vast majority of the population make that differentiation. It will take a lot to change their minds. When I told a friend of mine, who is a techie, that I have a few domain names he called me a squatter. That is what I feel most people think.

Sad, but true. I suppose that I'm squatting on all of my 170+ domains. I'm a reseller and I believe that my domains are an extension of my creativity. Nonetheless, I spotted/thought of them first - so call us what they may, its a market & we're merely manipulating it.

[katherine]

When I told a friend of mine, who is a techie, that I have a few domain names he called me a squatter. That is what I feel most people think.

I hear ya. You'd think the Internet people (webmasters SEOers etcc) are more educated but in fact they often have no clue about domains really, some of them are our fiercest opponents. It's indeed funny to see those self-righteous individuals depicting parking like a criminal activity while they litter the search engines with their crappy MFA sites.

[DTalk]

Attitudes out there are pretty fixed in some minds.....and uneducated about domains, in general.

A lot of resentment comes from not understanding the true value of good domains, too....I had an end user recently offer me Reg Fee x 4 years unused registration fees x 2 (ie $85) for a Premium, single word .com. They described this as offering me above market rate for the domain....!!....Just didn't begin to 'get' why this name was very valuable, and worth $xxx,xxx....



Hoarding (of anything useful) will often cause resentment. Those that hoard real estate land-banks (ie own & sit on a lot of land, without developing it) come in for criticism, too...And, domainers hoard a lot.


I think domainers often bring resentment down on their own heads, as well...Registering celebrity personal names, for example - then asking for the moon when the celeb seeks to buy it....Regging disaster domains for reg fee, then asking a charity for $20,000 for it (bound to be misunderstood)....TM Typos, of course - legal, look bad & smell bad - and happens a lot...etc etc



I recently had another (verified) end user offer me exactly what he knew I paid at auction for a name, telling me that he wouldn't offer me more 'cos it would be immoral for me to make a profit from the sale of a domain...!!....This was no TM name, or anything...just a domain.....Nuts!


Whilst some of the attitudes out there are unreasonable, but genuine, a lot are based on simple irritation, imo....ie 'You have something I need - and, you're not using it - and I don''t see why you should make a lot of money out of me with it..."

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[Dirty SEO]

So the article is basically saying because there can be .cocacola all domainers are screwed out of .coms? LOL I guess they haven't seen the values of .asia lately. Besides, do you really want more competition from mainstream investors?

[RobM]

Maybe we should all email him at cashpeters.com, pretend our name is Cash Peters, and then ask him to explain why he won't sell his domain to us for $7.99 :p

[Diabro]

Maybe we should all email him at cashpeters.com, pretend our name is Cash Peters, and then ask him to explain why he won't sell his domain to us for $7.99 :p

[Maxwell]

Maybe we should all email him at cashpeters.com, pretend our name is Cash Peters, and then ask him to explain why he won't sell his domain to us for $7.99 :p

If you actually did that, that would make a great blog post to show how their unfounded opinions can't hold water when the tables are turned.

[WebMaster]

People were always like this. Blaming others from their own failure.
Why didn't those "critics" reg those domains years back?

At times when first people with bright ideas start to buy domains as investment, everybody could do that. Only few have vision. And years after, those lazy retarded uncretive constant failure people this that they will step-up by tearing down those successful.

I'm in online biz (of any kind) for about 4-5 years. Theer were good times & bad times. I still missed years, I could start earlier. I've lost decent amount of traffic just by running first blogs on freeblog services. I've made tons of mistakes, I've overslept some good times in some niches.
But these are my small failures, I blame me.
But there are still tons of people who will blame everybody around, you know, such people that can be jealous when you got cancer and they don't.

I agree width you. Domain registrations been and are public for anyone interested. Then they been free anyone been able to register, and sure no need to blame or call it. It came from America there all peoples are seeking to sue anyone for easy money.

[Diabro]

I agree width you. Domain registrations been and are public for anyone interested. Then they been free anyone been able to register, and sure no need to blame or call it. It came from America there all peoples are seeking to sue anyone for easy money.

I agree it came from America. The Internet that is.