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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: Sandi Bowman In Response To: Re: Help with a Cybersquatter (Mel. White)
Monday, 17 October 2005, at 1:38 p.m.
> I don't what it's like now. My experience is seeral years old, so they
> might have changed. If I were you, I would explain to the client and go
> ahead with the filing -- but don't get their hopes up. That way, when
> ICANN comes through, you'll be in the catbird seat.
> Domain name selling used to be VERY big about 5 years ago, and no, it
> doesn't matter the size of the company. They might not hae targeted your
> company specifically. One little darling ran around buying up all the .com
> names of every city in Texas (or nearly every one) and tried to resell
> them for $5,00/name. Some paid, some didn't. Last I tried to get our
> dot-com name from him (three years ago) he wasn't responding but had
> somehow managed to lock the name up with himself as the sole registrar. We
> elected to register another name.
> We also had an ex city council person register our city's name (I can't
> remember if it was "citynametx" or just
> "citynametexas" or what.) He wanted money. When we didn't buy
> from him, he set up a very short-lived site criticizing the city.
> A local photographer snagged one variant of a local festival name.
> ...and so on and so forth. I also helped an actor recover his name from a
> fan (basically outwaited her.)
> Nope. They bought a different name and never looked back.
Interesting topic. Wonder what you call it when you check a name, it's available (and a very good one)and you try right then and there to register it and the site will not respond for about 12 minutes or so...then it comes up and tells you the name is taken. I didn't hesitate even an instant before deciding to purchase it...but someone else apparently wanted it and had first dibs on ANY decent name that came up. Not fair!
Then the person put up a nothing site (literally...no topic, no real info, nothing, and no order link for anything) for 6 weeks and took it down. Name has not been used since.
Now, what would you call this? I changed domain services after that experience.
Sandi Bowman
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