Re: new domain names

Is there any seriousness to the whole idea of folks not being allowed to
park domain names that go unused?
KP


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>
To: "Katherine Pollara" <kpollara(at)home.com>; "Hwg-Basics(at)Hwg.Org"
<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: new domain names


> > I want to get a domain and have been agonizing over this minutiae as if
it
> > was important, but some folks tell me I shouldn't.  What's the group
> think?
> > Kate Pollara
>
> New domain names has been bothering me for some time.  I guess this is
what
> you get when there are more commercial interests involved, than ones with
> common sense.  Besides the charade of having .com .net and .org being used
> by folks that are not really in those groups, you have a very large group
of
> speculators out there camping out on likely commercial names.
>
> Any search of a likely name for an ecommerce website lately will turn up a
> reserved name where someone wants to charge you $10,000.00 for the rights
to
> the name.  I don't enjoy telling someone their $500.00 website just went
to
> $10,500.00 because their name is being used by an Internet pirate.  ICANN
is
> corrupt as far as I am concerned.  This practice is vile and we don't need
> it at a time when everyone is looking at the Internet and wondering about
> it's viability as a serious business platform for the future.
>
> Paul Wilson
> webgooru(at)gte.net
>
>
>

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