This is great Terri…thanks for the great read.

The complexity of living in a capitalistic society rewards those who see the future and not those like you who crib and cry over possessed toys, which you never owned in the first place.

Try barging into a real estate office and demand their right owners hand over their piece of undeveloped property as some asset squatted upon.

Ignorant fools like you give entrepreneurship a bad name.

Some dude dropped OmahaTours.com (Yes, I am blatantly promoting it as an example so Morons like you can fathom the disparity in intellect) and I picked it up.

I have no intention to drive around the city of Omaha greeting their guests. So, you are telling me, I should not bank upon an opportunity to own, develop, sell or make use of this valuable piece of online real estate. Or should the Internet govern rights of inherent domains and let sleeping beauties such as your wife come along when they are prepared to start a business as God’s true rightful owner.

Someone like your wife comes around wanting to get the name for their little project in maybe the next 5 years or whenever someone finds the itch to start a business.

Please do me a favor. Buy some names for your kids before they grow to be adults. You don’t want them to meet the same fate as your wife.

Domainer does not = squatter.

A domainer buys up generic domain names for monetization purposes. A “squatter” will buy domain names of trademarked companies for the sole purposes of selling those names to those companies for a profit.

The secondary domain market exists for the same reason the real estate market exists.

If you think a person who owns generic domains names (ex: this.com, that.com, hi.com, etc.com) is a squatter, then you’re wrong.

A domainer is no different than a real estate owner. Just because there is nothing on a plot of land gives does not give any other person any new found right to do anything, other than complain.

If you own 100 tracts of land and you drill oil or natural gas off each, then you make a recurring revenue from it. It does not have to be developed or fully developed to make money. Just because someone comes along and says they can do so much better with that land does not mean they are entitled to it.

Almost all of the land in the world is gone and owned by someone. A fraction of all domain names that CAN be registered actually are.

If you want a domain name that someone else owns, you have to pay for it. If you search for a slightly different domain name, more than likely you can get it for 8 bucks.

Ex: If the domain you want is listed for sale for 8 bucks, take a look and see if the .US is registered. Or, see if the .CA is registered (if you are Canadian,) or see if the .net is registered.

Every single person who wants a domain name has the opportunity to get that domain, or a *similiar* domain at around 8 bucks. You can’t do that with any tract of land.

If HAVE TO HAVE a certain domain, then you will have to pay if it’s already registered.

And just to prove my point, let’s change this quote:

“The real estate industry exists purely to squeeze profit from consumer confusion, artificial scarcity, and literal extortion. No actual value has been added to the universe, just a redistribution of money from people who have a valid use for a clear plot of land to people who bought that clear plot of land first.”

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So, before one attacks domainers, you may take up the big fight first and fight for land redistribution from those who own more than one plot of land.

But if we did that….wouldn’t it be communism?

Happy Domaining!

Sean Stafford
http://www.domaingraduate.com

I host my personal blog with you folks on Dreamhost and talk about TLDs all the time.

By the way didn’t Dreamhost operate a ccTLD for a short span of time? What happened there?

-Jothan

Josh, is it possible to connect with you through email? there are few ideas how to try to fix this problem.

You dont need mutch processing power to run a TDL, what a couple of thousond connections a seconds or any thing lol,

But there a web Servers out there that cope with more just a couple of deadicated servers and a root one that can loadbalance no more then £500 a month

Plus the TDL Registration if i had the money i would Sell domains for about £1 eatch a year £2 for first registration this would create a big demand and what so £100,000 so i would just need to sell about 101,000 a year to keep the costs of runnning the system down then whats the problem

I think this is grate news if only there were a company willing to do this and put the time in people allways want cheap that is why the .uk domain set of so well £3 a time and people love it

Its just a bout supply and demand

I suppose one good think that would come out of this ICANN legislation is that companies like DreamHost can benefit from having a .ndn (or something along those lines) TLD for inner-network use (like spunky.ndn or arizona.ndn). Companies like eBay could use .ebay for the different categories (autos.ebay, computers.ebay, etc). Especially since both of these companies have the ability to be a registrar. =P

This kind of legislation opens up a new world of opportunity, good and bad…

Just my two bits.
- Logan

I did bother to read this entire, long post. (Believe me, it’s not so long compared to some of mine, plus it has pictures so as not to bore the reader. See? I know your secret!)