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Re:If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I payin... by rms_returns on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:19PM (#11931435)
There should be an easy way through which you can complain against the squatters online. Maybe Google should act as a mediator here as they can blacklist any domain from their searches and thus hold about as much power as the registrars/ICANN.

In any case, what happened afterwards? Did you get back your domain or is it still being squatted?

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Re:If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I payin... by ocdtrekkie on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:33PM (#11931463)
It's still being squatted. I own other TLDs for it we can operate the site off of. I'm hoping eventually they abandon the domain, since it's unlikely anyone else will want it.
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Re:If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I payin... by rms_returns on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:51PM (#11931501)
Did you try complaining to ICANN about it via any means? An alternative is to throw a DMCA on them through Google, that's much faster (though its intended use is reporting of copyright violations, not sure how it'll work for reporting of squatting of domain names).
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Re:If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I payin... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday June 19, 2016 @02:09AM (#11931986)
ICANN wants you to file a dispute. Filing a dispute costs more than paying the squatter.
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