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- cr4ft, on 10/11/2007, -22/+186Digg me down or not, I have to speak my mind.
I think it's wrong that people can hold so many domains and sell them at a later date. There are people out there who think of some great domain names for their start-up's only to find out it's owned by people (like this Ham) who sell it in upwards of thousands of dollars, prices that most people cant and wont afford. - Finovski, on 10/11/2007, -14/+170This guy is nothing but a domain squatter! Domain squatters are nothing but web cancer.
- utcursch, on 10/11/2007, -3/+139"The man who owns the Internet?"
WTF?
On Reddit, this was submitted with the title "This guy is a piece of *****."
http://programming.reddit.com/info/1sr8n/comments - smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -8/+136what a douchebag.
domain squatters contribute nothing to society and are a pain in the ass for legitimate businesses. - riversnguyen, on 10/11/2007, -8/+116He makes moneey off of typos? He will not get oen penny out of me I nver make any typos!
- bobbknight, on 10/11/2007, -12/+115300 million, owns the internet, ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
- mikes1, on 10/11/2007, -6/+95Domain squatters are scumbags.
- newstart, on 10/11/2007, -4/+65Hey! Wait a minute!
Its because of people like Kevin, that poor web 2.0 companies have to do with bad spellings, flickr, reddit, tumblr, anothr.........
If you take a second look at it, this guy is responsible for ruining spelling skills for the coming generation!! - grimfandango, on 10/11/2007, -5/+64"Domain squatters are scumbags." --agreed, they fill the web with noise and hinder progression.
- scottylist, on 10/11/2007, -6/+58This is the same thing that's going to happen with the guys that got in on the .mobi landrush: http://www.dotmobiz.com/topportfolios.shtml
They're all going to get rich off the ultra-premium .mobi domains they got for peanuts in the early days, while later on folks who want to build a mobile site will be forced to fork over thousands.
ICANN needs to change their domain policy. If you don't use your domain, you lose it. - kaisa, on 10/11/2007, -3/+47so true, this guy is just a dirtbag. the article attempts to paint him in a good light...and pretty much fails.
- EmileVictor, on 10/11/2007, -7/+50I must credit him, that .cm thing is brilliant.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -2/+37@repran, because he's a cybersquatter. He buys thousands of domains for a few dollars a year, and then tries to blackmail people who will actually do something useful with it for thousands of dollars. It should be illegal to do this, if you don't do anything with the domain name you shouldn't be allowed to have it. There needs to be a better screening or application process.
I'm not happy because my domain name is 25 characters long. All the 1, 2, 3 and 4 character domain names are being taken mainly by cybersquatters. The one I want is only 9 characters long, but it's been taken for years by someone who's done nothing with it except run advertising.
Consider some hard working company called "Joe's Lawn Care". Family business, been around for decades. They decide to start an online booking website for their services. Only some cybersquatter has taken the domains:
joeslawncare.com
joeslawn.com
joes-lawncare.com
joes-lawn-care.com
and so on.
So in the end the company who deserves this domain gets stuck with something hideous like www.joes-lawn-care-usa.biz
Or they can ask the cybersquatter how much to buy the joeslawncare.com domain off him. He's paying $10 a year for it, and making about $0.50 a year through the advertising on it. He's never going to turn it into a website. But his response is "$50,000 is the minimum price".
This practice is evil, and I hate anyone who does it. - Gizza, on 10/11/2007, -4/+36@riversnguyen (#6823849)
Not only that, he makes money off people who make typos and then click on the ads on the page that they weren't suppose to go. There are always dumb people out there to make smart people rich. - iidestined, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18that title seems more accurate.
in for resubmit - Nocturnal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15I hate to say it, yes, what he is doing is wrong and so are the people who create domain names after tragic events like Hurricane Katrina and the VA Tech massacre. But some of you are upset because you didn't think of it first. I have a conscience so I don't even attempt to capitalize on any type of bad event.
In any case, I'm sure a lot of you would, if you could, at a drop of a hat, buy a domain name that you could resell eventually for $10k. - jennamalia, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14If the "whole system is a piece of *****," then it's only because the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) isn't being enforced. Note that this only applies to misspellings.
So, you can either bitch and moan about it, or urge the infringed party to sue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Protection_Act - Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -7/+19@scottylist (#6826530)
Use it *for what?* So I put up a page that says "This domain for sale." Or one of those parked "search engines." Or goatse. Who's going to be the arbiter of whether or not I'm "using" my domain.
If I bought it, I can do anything I like with it, or nothing at all. Just like I can go buy a shirt and leave it in the package in my closet and never wear it, if I so choose. You might say that that shirt would go to better use by someone who couldn't afford a shirt, and who would actually wear it. Does that give you the right to take my shirt? - ascguy, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15How is it any different than buying a plot of land in the hopes that one day someone might want to develop on it?
- airwalkery2k, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11I hate people that register domains en masse and try to sell them back for ridiculous prices considering how little they spent. Back when I was a foolish young kid, I was going to register a sweet domain. I went to one of those "domain checkers" to make sure it wasn't taken. Man, was that stupid. I went to buy the domain a few hours later... and oh, guess what? Somebody mysteriously bought it and is trying to sell it to me for $3,500.
It is very fitting this man owns satan.com. - futureb, on 10/11/2007, -23/+31use openDNS (not an advertisement...seriously...fix those misspellings in the address bar)
http://www.opendns.com/ - snapneck, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13this guy has got a pretty ***** up morale for a doctor
- paulmdx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10FTA: "If you control all the domains," he says, "then you control the Internet."
Wow, nice attitude. - newstart, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Totaly off topic, but I liked the informative graphics displayed on the side in this article, just like in real magazines, I wish more people would do this
- gikeymarcia, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9@ kmckanna
you should be ashamed of your douche of a father - Zopperoni, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Six degrees of Kevin Ham, anyone?
- jcliff29, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8@jennmalia
It must be because over 95% of the world's population could not care less about the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (also known as Truth in Domain Names Act) which is simply a __United States federal law__ - avasol, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7lol, OpenDNS.
- jjb123, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8This guy is a douche. He is keeping everyone else from getting any good domains because this douche sucked them all up.
- thekronz, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9Buried as inaccurate. Al Gore owns the internet.
- etnu, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Jesus thinks this guy is an *****.
Captcha: rV HaM. Coincidence? - nemobushido, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9i want to like this guy, from such a noble-sounding article. i really do. but his complete domination of URLs is overly capitalistic for me. greedy, you could say. and he's not done with .cm either, he wants to keep going. you're not rich enough, doctor? you'd rather keep snatching domains than practicing medicine and possibly saving lives? what happened to this guys morality? what made him suddenly decide to turn from a savior to a crook?
- edebolt, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8long article.. I don't think the average digger can maintain concentration that ..... wait what was I talking about???
- slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5You sure that he owns the internet??
- osarhan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6People seem to either be jealous or have moral issuer with the whole thing, personally I think its perfectly grand, the guy saw an idea and went with it without harming a fly! Fair play to him!
- DesuKN, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6OpenDNS, lol.
- Rohhob, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5How are people defending this *****?
It would be the same as if someone would have been allowed to buy a square inch of land in every acre of the US and then turn around and sell it for a 10,000% profit to someone who actual wants to use the land.
***** this guy - popothebright, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5So many clueless dolts here who don't understand the fundamentals of capitalism.
You think domain squatting is unfair, but you think getting paid more than other people around the world is fair ... or that the first world is fair.... or that your fat, cushy, American lifestyle (and yes, its cushy as hell compared to most of the world) is somehow fair?
So let me summarize your clueless arguments: When you're a "have" its fair (ie: you're a first-worlder and you not only have a computer, with web-access but eating food, drinking water and showering today will not be an issue for you). But when you're a "have not", it's suddenly not "fair". Because "having things" that you can easily afford is your god given right. Like gasoline (which at $4/gal. is probably also "not fair" for you).
Ah yes, Digg, Land of the whiny and clueless. - bsiviglia9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Would you say that people that hoard resources from the community are engaging in a form of theft if the resource goes unused?
- leonwehttam, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4He once used a Vancouver post office box for domain-related mail -- until the day he opened a package that contained a note reading "You are a piece of s**t," accompanied by an actual piece of it.
LMAO...serves him right! - flxfxp, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Why do i always feel that ppl that are domain parkers are the same as campers in FPS games?
- chunga23, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Out of curiosity, why doesn't digg check for duplicate links? I posted this article several hours before this digger posted it, yet this is the one that got dugg up. I'm not griping or anything, just trying to figure out why a simple character-for-character check on a URL isn't performed? When submitting a digg, it shows a list of possible dupes, so I'd think an identical URL would be a big flashing dupe signal. Perhaps "Tech Industry News" wasn't the right category?
http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Man_Who_Owns_the_Internet_6 - popothebright, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3There's a very simple answer to this problem: Domain names need to sell initially for $250 each. This is a sum of money that is accessible to anyone who really wants a site, and makes buying 100's of names extremely expensive -- which ultimately makes domain squatting an extremely high risk venture.
- Pile, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3What this guy is doing isn't as bad as how ICANN has left a loophole for these registrars to steal peoples domain names and try them out for free and if they don't generate traffic, they give them back.
I've had a few clients lose their domain names because these speculators take advantage of this loophole and grab their domains before they're released into the public domain - since there's no cost to do it, they steal domains by the millions. This is another reason why ICANN needs to be replaced. - succubuskiller, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6No there is a difference between free will and being and ass. He is an ass because be brings 0 innovation to the world.
But on the other hand it somewhat follows the principle in Real Estate where Location has a impact on price and he is just "domain speculating" and holding it till there are less domains available and sells them for a premium. His tactics of buying domains in other countries to catch misspellings can be partially thwarted using the URL Fixer Addon for FireFox which catches simple misspellings and automatically corrects it. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4this is similar to the guy who made a deal with the Samoans for use of their .ws suffix to pitch is as "WebSite"
- Tarnum, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2There was such tax... the high domain price. $30/domain was good deterrent for the squatters, yet completely acceptable for any real business.
The .eu and some country registrars require you to actually register a trademark 1st, and then register the domain. - tehgoatman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4I think these people should pay some equivalent of property tax
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3so there is > 100 million web sites on the internet right now and he owns 300,000 of them .... how does that mean he owns the internet?
- Adrianc333, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Owning all the domains doesn't mean you own the internet...pfft...
We could just have Ads, "bla bla bla, for more info, visit our website at "23434.634.23.42.523" -
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