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> TLD registries typically no longer even know the identity of the registrants. Maybe they should know? Why do they pester me every year about my contact detai
by labawi 7y ago
> TLD registries typically no longer even know the identity of the registrants.
Maybe they should know? Why do they pester me every year about my contact details? I think they also say my registration can be voided if I use fake info.
If you need a bunch of LLCs to register thousands of domains, your expenses go way up.
Not all registries need to work the same way. It should be sufficient if some applicable ones are rinsed.
> How do you even define squatting? How do you prosecute it?
Registering domains for the purpose of selling at a higher price.
If you look at the top domain holders, I'm sure it would not be that difficult to prove in court what the purpose of all those domain registrations are.
Civil proceedings would probably be better, at least for smaller squatters. If you squat lots of domains, you get a chance of someone hyperactive suing you, or making complaints to the registrar.
- CydeWeys 7y agoThe reason is GDPR, plus whois privacy/proxy services. How do you possibly know which domains were registered with that intent? That seems like it'd require mind reading. And who would be doing the enforcement? National governments? Good luck with that. Squatters would just operate out of the countries that don't care. I own roughly a dozen domain names. Most aren't in use. I didn't register these with the intent of reselling them, but if someone contacted me offering me a thousand bucks for almost any of them I'd take that deal. I suspect most other people would too. Does that make us all squatters? Should we be arrested and prosecuted?