Squatters do this shit every day to regular people and small businesses, but they don't have the money to convince a judge to hand over a domain.
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Hey it's just fair, and the judge has a new sports car suddenly and or a yacht.
I was more talking about the costs of the legal process itself. Justice is expensive, not everyone can afford it.
A squatter is why Valve used steampowered.com instead of steam.com. The owner of steam.com (who has owned the domain since the early 90s!) has consistently refused to sell to anyone, and has never stated a specific reason why.
I see nothing wrong with that. It predates steam and they aren't attempting to extort large sums of money from anyone.
What the judge should have done is threaten to cut the domain name in half and see who was willing to give up their claim out of motherly love.
I wonder how much the city of LA would pay to get La.com back haha.
Why a city would want a .com tld? A .gov tld would be far more applicable IMO
Annoyingly, people are more likely to "blind guess" at .com than .gov, just cause there's more of them
Do people even still exist who have the arcane knowledge to type in a domain directly?
Hey, that's not arcane knowledge.
Arcane knowledge is memorising the server's IP address.
Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot...
I do, but only for websites I already know, though usually I have those bookmarked.
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I would guess tourism. It seems like that's what it's currently used for.
The city of LA should not get a .com name. They might have a case that la.com should not have a .com either (they look like a tourist .org though if they are not acting like a .org they are scammers) - but this would be a very hard sell in court. The city of LA should have a .gov (which won't allow them) or .us (which is not organized well - something they should be mad about and pressure to get fixed) name.
I think the initial goal of top level domains having any real meaning is dead.
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Wasn’t expecting to see biblical wisdom on the fediverse today
I don’t have all the details to the case, but after reading the article I kinda think they got it wrong.
Let that man call himself Lambo and keep the domain. As long as he isn’t pretending to represent another brand, such as Lamborghini.
They got it right because they sided with the wealthy corporation.
Another great example of this being an economic rent problem.
Namecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies, but never caught on because it's >99% domain name squatters. There's no mechanism to increase the cost of renewal to anything proportional to the value of the name, so they always renew for practically free. Consequently there's no incentive for web browsers to support it.
A domain name is like a plot of land. Right now our choices are crony capitalist ICANN with eminent domain, anarcho-capitalist crypto DNS, or sailing the high seas on an .onion address.
Hey hey hey, there’s i2p too.
I always love these shitty “replace the enter key on a keyboard” news thumbnails. Like, ah shit, accidentally hit the “Domain Name Registration” button on my keyboard.
Oh, that's no biggie:
Hrmm let's see.. am I petty enough today...
Please avoid GoDaddy.
GoDaddy has been involved in many controversies since its foundation in 1997.
I prefer NameCheap, but almost anyone is better than GoDaddy.
*Edit: broken link
Holy $+(+$ even a registrar can't stay out of trouble
Thanks for the education
zombo.com still good though
That's a fight I'll take up arms for.
You can do anything...
But where will we find young sheep passing under a bar videos?
Stupid greedy asshole got what he deserved. Could have made bank by selling it for 1 million already. But the greed rulebook said to keep raising it to 75 million.
Fuck Lamborghini too.
He raised the price higher than the cost of going to WIPO to deal with it. If he set the price to $1 or 2 million they likely would have paid it. $75 million is bonkers.
He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone.
Yes, fuck poor people for trying to screw over corporations.
He bought the domain for $10000. Not sure what your definition of poor is, but in my opinion someone poor isn't "investing" in expensive domain names.
Is that what you call scalpers, scammers and thieves, "the poor"? I agree that in most cases they are poor, but they are also assholes that deserve it.
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