Originally posted by jberryhill
"I just wanted to see what would happen."
My brother once felt the same way about putting his finger into an electric pencil sharpener.
It's probably not a good idea to do these kinds of things out of curiousity. But as long as you are a risk taker, perhaps you could do the pee-on-the-electric-fence thing and let me know what happens. I've always wondered about that, but haven't bothered to try it.
:laugh:
I spent most of my professional career analyzing all of these issues from the safe confines of Network Solutions' corporate offices in Herndon Virginia. I admit it's kind of a rush hanging out with real live "Domain Speculators" and getting an honest to God C&D letter, trolling the drop lists, trying to get "Listed." I even own a real-live adult domain now, "ToysForSluts.com." It may seem strange to you guys, but to me this is all very new and very exciting.
Once I got the letter, I called a bunch of buddies of mine at the Registry (including the Senior VP of Marketing and Strategy...my former boss) and we all had a great big chuckle! It's not strictly for laughs though. Many of the things I'm learning out here in the real world I'm conveying back to folks in Herndon. ...showing them where the deleted domains lists are, encouraging them to visit some of these domain forums, explaining to them why GoDaddy is eating the Registrar's lunch, giving feedback from a real-live-domain-guy perspective.
It may seem really goofy to some of you, but I've actually learned more about the domain space by hanging out here and getting my feet wet, than I ever did reading Yankee Group reports, State of the Domain, Vividence useability studies, or by pulling numbers out of a data warehouse.
Anyway, squatting on AOLSlut.com was a risky way to learn about squatting, but no knowledge worth having comes without risk.
TTFN
