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- LegalSatire, on 01/31/2008, -1/+211Finally! I've been hoping for something like this for years. Even a small fee (twenty cents or so) would be devastating to a company that goes through 45 million domains. Of course, to you or me (normal users who only pick up a few domains, ever) a 20 cent fee isn't a big deal.
I honestly can't believe it's taken them this long. - xb00t, on 01/31/2008, -5/+191Google is about to loose quite a large sum just to please the end user and get rid of obnoxious websites? How is Google not nominated for an Awesome Award?
- dreadroberts, on 01/31/2008, -2/+122...and so concludes j0hneb0y81's long and arduous trek to fit the word "geophagia" into a conversation.
- hypnotoad32, on 01/31/2008, -3/+105ICANN has your domain names?
- j0hneb0y81, on 01/31/2008, -4/+96eating dirt, mud cookies.. whats up with all the geophagia on digg today!?
- Dokument, on 01/31/2008, -1/+91I nominate Google for the Awesome Award
- TheTaoOfBill, on 01/31/2008, -1/+61This is awesome! I run a cafepress t-shirt store called Obese Bumble Bee T-shirts and I used to own ObeseBumblebee.com but I was short on money when I had to pay the bill so I let it expire thinking what harm would a couple of weeks be for an expired website. But one of these tasters snatched it right out from under me and now they are using it to link to other t-shirt sites. ***** douchebags. I hope they enjoy their giant 50 visitors a day...
- maxpower2911, on 01/31/2008, -0/+41It's about time. Tasters are the equivalent of trademarking all everyday terms and then making someone pay to say them. It really grinds my gears.
- gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -2/+42"No, I am happy to leave things as they are I think."
Then you must be a moron or a domain name flipper. - Puttzy, on 01/31/2008, -3/+38if you read the article you would . . . never mind, why do I even bother
- inactive, on 01/31/2008, -0/+36Something to trouble the domain flippers
- pianomahnn, on 01/31/2008, -3/+35I second such nomination. Therefor, based upon the by-laws of the intarwebz, it is so declared on this day that Google be nominated for an Awesome Award.
Let voting on ratification of such nominations commence. - j0hneb0y81, on 01/31/2008, -1/+31talking about it is the only thing that makes me feel normal :(
- itspuddingtime, on 01/31/2008, -2/+30I came here looking for Tasers and I leave severely disappointed...
- gyrfalcon, on 01/31/2008, -2/+28maxpower2911.com
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oooops wrong window! :P - rslaven, on 01/31/2008, -0/+23The first time I ran into this was actually yesterday when I was registering a new domain for the first time in a few years. Like most people I went to netsol to to a whois, and then registered with godaddy, only to be charged and then told the domain was unavailable because netsol locked it seconds earlier.
Very dirty practice. I had to then call netsol and have them unlock the domain, wait about 30 minutes, and call godaddy, have them refund me, and then re-register the domain under my account. As a consumer it really pissed me off. - Firehed, on 01/31/2008, -0/+23Those typo-domains filled with ads and no content have always been against the TOS for AdSense, as the bring no value to anyone. Yes, in the short term, the AdWords customer still pays Google for the clicks/views. But long-term, they see a lower ROI and may be persuaded to use a different advertiser.
Don't get me wrong - this is completely awesome and Google may lose some money in the short-term as a result. But it's to everyone's benefit in the long run (well, everyone but the domain tasters anyways). - StatiK69, on 01/31/2008, -0/+22I believe I can speak for many web designers when I say good riddance!
- Archon810, on 01/31/2008, -1/+21best lolcat comment ever (ok, maybe today).
- SilentBobSC, on 01/31/2008, -3/+19BURN IN HELL NETWORK SOLUTIONS!
- scronline, on 01/31/2008, -3/+20Good, I'm getting tired of the squatting B.S. There once was a time when you had to be a company to get .com a network/ISP to get .net and organization to get a .org. When they stopped worrying about doing that all hell started breaking loose. Personally don't believe there should be ANY grace period or fee. Domains aren't that expensive and legit people can deal with "I made a mistake, oops. Cost me $15". It's their mistake and they should be able to accept the fact that it will cost them to reg that domain for a year. I know I wouldn't have a problem with that.
But then, I'm also a firm believer in materials should be in the right place. tv stations should be on .tv porn should be on .xxx and so forth. That way you can filter much easier at any level you want. For example as an ISP I would be able to setup "parental filters" that block out all adult material by simply disallowing .xxx to be sent to those customers. Simple, eh? Then you don't have to worry about your 13 year old son or daughter racking up charges on or seeing material you don't want them to see. Don't want them watching TV? block .tv and so forth.
What ticks me off is I've been wanting to get a domain for a couple of years and it's been a squatter sitting on it doing nothing and they expect $10k for it.... they're smoking something. - Harbinger67, on 01/31/2008, -5/+22You know what really grinds my gears? This Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan with all those little outfits, jumping around there on stage, half-naked with your little outfits. Ya know? You're a... You're out there jumping around and I'm just sitting here with my beer. So, what am I supposed to do? What you want? You know, are we gonna go out? Is that what you're trying to - why why are you leaping around there, throwing those things all up in my, over there in my face? What do you want, Lindsay? Tell me what you want? Well, I'll tell you what you want, you want nothing. You want nothing. All right? Because we all know that no woman anywhere wants to have sex with anyone, and to titillate us with any thoughts otherwise is - is just bogus.
- loneBoat, on 01/31/2008, -0/+16"Sorry for being OT"
You're an Operating Thetan? - munkyxtc, on 01/31/2008, -1/+16In all fairness letting a domain expire and someone else buying it is different then domain tasting; still sucks you lost your domain, but it's worth noting they aren't the same.
- JigoroKano, on 01/31/2008, -2/+17Seconded.
- fartbuttes, on 01/31/2008, -5/+19nooo they be stealin my domains
- dood, on 01/31/2008, -0/+14There are multiple problems with .xxx . The problem with the "porn filter" idea is that you'd have to get everyone involved in porn to a) buy up lots of .xxx domains at whatever the price would be and b) shut down their highly profitable .com (.net, etc) domains. There's no way a law could enforce this because the Internet is international -- as an ISP you'd need to block .xxx and all domains from any "non-complying" country. And what do you do when someone posts something that's "borderline pornography" on a .com, set up an "Internet decency court" to figure that out?
As SilentBobSC says, client-side software is the way to go. I'd take it one step further: parents should implement whitelisting, rather than blacklisting, if they can't trust their children. - smoger, on 01/31/2008, -1/+14ship the domain tasters to Haiti!
- NJank, on 01/31/2008, -1/+14All in favor?
- Dochtuir, on 01/31/2008, -0/+12Brilliant! Well done sir.
- hypnotoad32, on 01/31/2008, -0/+12I think I might set it up for a few days to see if it gets any hits.
- martinherrera, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11anyone else try to go to ilovespaminacan.com?
- edwartica, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11Yeah, I had a domain name and I let it expire, and then I kept getting calls about some immoral activity being done with it!
- JigoroKano, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11Aye
- Rahodeb, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10that's kind of the point
- endlessoul, on 01/31/2008, -4/+14Don't taste me, bro!
- jonshipman, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10Aye
- loneBoat, on 01/31/2008, -1/+11"Then you must be a moron or a domain name flipper."
Are they mutually exclusive? - inactive, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10When will they do something about Domain Slammers like DROC?
http://www.tbayit.com/blog.asp?show=33 - insomniac8400, on 01/31/2008, -0/+920cents seems way to low. They should charge at least 5 bucks.
- tapo, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10Here's a quote Vanilla made:
"How the hell can you say that? Read the front page - Every four links are about Obama. And the Digg zombies are talking about him like he's a God. This guy has nothing to offer."
I guess the guy hates Obama so much that he's trolling in every thread, pretending to be an obnoxious campaign supporter. That's just ***** annoying.
(Sorry for being OT) - SilentBobSC, on 01/31/2008, -0/+9Tasting != Squatting, unfortunately this new ruling by ICANN deals with the grace-period tasting and not the "Brokering" that many squatters practice. Unfortunately, that will probably remain around for quite a bit.
As a side note, any ISP filtering websites at their level would be a terrible idea (IMHO), instead shift the filtering off to a simple client-side software program or just point *.xxx in the hosts file to localhost or something. You also have the problem of enforcement, you'd still have plenty of .com pornographers spread throughout many countries which the US has no legal control over, so it's kind of a moot point. I do, however, think that the .xxx domain was a great idea it's just too bad a bunch of clueless religious zealots decided it would only encourage pornography to spread across the internet (as if it wasn't there already). Oh well... - FizixMan, on 01/31/2008, -2/+11***** political fanaticism.
- rayraym0fucka, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8I think even at 20 cents, these people are regging hundreds and hundreds of domains. That 20 cents will add up to a lot.
- 4rp4n3t, on 01/31/2008, -1/+8Buried. Idiot.
- Psythik, on 02/01/2008, -0/+7Aye
- GamerX, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7mmmmmmmm, domaaaaains! *drool*
- strictnein, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6How does it taste?
- 4j4x, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6The ICANN fee is about 22 cents per year. Even if ICANN were to charge the minimum 1 year fee for all registrants, then leave it up to the registrars to decide if they want to offer the grace period to their customers, then change will happen.
- iChainsaw, on 02/01/2008, -0/+5Aye
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