Regulating Cybersquatting (Domain Sharks)

Re:Regulating Cybersquatting (Domain Sharks) by klez on Thursday April 23, 2015 @03:37AM (#9425386)

Maybe there should be a way to challange a domain squat, stating for example that you can't park domain for more than X time, and you can't renew it if you kept it parked for X time without doing anything with it. I see a lot of legitimate reasons to keep a domain parked, but clearly a domain that redirects to the likes of "get the best offers for..." has the only purpose of reselling squatted domains, and that would be a sufficient reason, IMHO, to 'expropriate' a domain.

> This Cybersquatting is exactly the same as selling drugs

Please, give me a break.

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Re:Regulating Cybersquatting (Domain Sharks) by thebillkidy on Thursday April 23, 2015 @03:42AM (#9425396)

I agree there are a lot of reasons to keep a domain parked. The only thing I do not agree on is buying domains just to resell them again. You can do that with ground, properties and so on because these are valuable. But on a platform such as the internet this just puts a stop to the evolution of it.

The drugs reference might be a bit overdone, I just want to make a statement here to find a regulation for this.

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