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I have an uncommon last name - about 3 families in the world with it as far as I can tell. Some asshole has been squatting <mylastname>.com for over 20 years an
by 0x00000000 9y ago
I have an uncommon last name - about 3 families in the world with it as far as I can tell.
Some asshole has been squatting <mylastname>.com for over 20 years and said he "hadn't considered selling it" then wanted $100,000 for it. The same guy has been squatting hundreds of domains since the 90s, many of them 1 letter off from major websites.
What can I do against this scum? I saw that there have been many successful disputes against him so I was thinking of constructing one in a similar vein saying that his use of my unique last name to serve malware and ads is damaging to my reputation but it seems a little weak.
Also no other TLD is even an option for an email address because people always assume you made a mistake and just send things to .com anyway in my experience.
- leipert 9y agoYou could register a second or third level .name domain, so in your case probably 0x00000000.name or firstname.0x00000000.name ;) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name
- true_religion 9y agoFor 100 thousand you could just buy a tld and be firstname@lastname
- shoo 9y agowhy not just register a domain that isn't your last name, and use that?