Cyber-Squatter Mentality: Greed In Action! 4
bugnuts writes: "A pseudo-cyber-squatter is showing typical mentality of greed by suing ICANN for defamation. ICANN warned that TLDs were not decided, because some companies were selling preregistered domains with no clue what those domains will be. The suit claims that this warning was defamatory." Now I've seen it all - scammers suing ICANN for warning people about their scam.
Bogus! (Score:2)
They would not only have to show libel, but also show that their announcement was directed at RegLand Inc.
To show libel they must prove that:
In Texas there is no anti-SLAPP statute [casp.net] which would have made it easier to dismiss. But, the courts agree that this type of case should be dismissed as early as possible, if it is proper to dismiss.
Of couse, we don't have all the facts and are speculating here.
What a waste of time! (Score:2)
Again, why we need TLDs with restrictions (Score:2)
dot coms not as valuable as before (Score:1)
With all the companies going bankrupt, does it seem that great domain aren't as hot anymore (See fuckedcompany.com [fuckedcompany.com]). I found this article [abcnamebank.com] which list the Top Ten Most Expensive name purchases. Besides altavista.com [altavista.com] which sold for $3.35 million, I haven't been nor need to visit any of the other sites like wallstreet.com (a gambling site nothing about stocks or trading is mentioned there) or drugs.com (there isn't even any information about drugs on the site just click through links to generate money).
I don't believe you need to have "standardize" name as your domain to be sucessful at all. Google.com and C|Net.com are doing pretty good with their branding AND w/o spending $X mil for their domain.
I use to work for a company who bought a "high profile" domain name and it hasn't been as successful as they thought and the company laid off some people, including a good friend. So any company tempting you with their advantage of having a high profile domain instead of their product or whatever...beware.