I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring. Help

Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by bigiain on Monday October 03, 2011 @06:33AM (#3065740)

"A Norwegian name squatting company holds a bunch of last name domains not really using them for anything besides linking to their site "so everyone with that last name will be able to use it".

The problem is the they want like a dollar per month to give you one email address. "

That's a perfectly reasonably business model. Renting email addresses is quite clearly "using" a domain. It might not be a hackernews/startup-web-business, but they've thought of a way to try and make a living and registered the domain first - what makes you think you have any sort of claim to "have rights to own taht domain" than they do?

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Re:I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me int... by flexd on Monday October 03, 2011 @06:31PM (#3068443)

Yeah I am aware it's a perfectly good business model. But this specific type of domain squatting is incredibly annoying. I couldn't find any information on their website now but they were charging a lot more for just being able to point a sub-domain somewhere.

I'm sure I would have found the idea clever if I had thought of it first but the wording on their site makes it seem like they are trying to do people a good service when it seems their sole purpose is to make money (which is understandable).

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