Re:Ask HN: Why isn't domain squatting illegal?
by cyptus on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:18AM
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you are right, it wont work to make any rules about who has which rights for any domain.
but i think just making it illegal to make a business about reselling domains (which includes the squatting just for selling them later), the domain market would be much better to a find a real domain matching your business case.
i think companies their business case is just to buy and resell domains for higher value, do not give any value to the domain market and just make it worse.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't domain squatting illegal?
by rubenhak on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:29PM
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You know that TLDs are not owned by any single government. Even if some countries introduce domain reselling laws, its just enough to have one country to not to have the same law.
It is sometimes frustrating, but we can live with that. As I said before, you just have to improvise a little bit more with naming.
In either case it would not help startups. Lets say you decide to open a company named "Banana". How do you envision taking ownership of banana.com? :)
New companies have a luxury of picking ANY name, and a name for which domain is not taken. There are lots of practices on name picking.