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Domain squatting should be illegal
by codingjerk 1y ago
Domain squatting should be illegal
- mvdwoord 1y agoAgree, this is deceptive, and highly annoying as consumer too. There must be some consumer protection laws in the EU that can be used against this?
- thrance 1y agoSadly not, the corrupt ICANN seems out of reach of European regulators.
- hgomersall 1y agoThey could fracture the internet. I expect even the threat would bring ICANN into line.
- OgsyedIE 1y agoJudging from their handling of the American-dominated search, email and cloud shenanigans to the EU's detriment already, the EU probably can't even conceive that the infrastructure giants like PCH even need to be threatened yet. They are very slow on the uptake.
- xnickb 1y agoYeah and it feels Germany more than other EU states is dragging behind in everything IT related. Perhaps the problem isn't as much the lack of political will, but rather lack of competence.
- OgsyedIE 1y agoThe lack of competence is downstream of a lack of vision. Fix it and the competence will come. Don't fix it and every attempt to imbue competence will fail.
- schroeding 1y agoThese are ccTLDs, though, ICANN is out of the picture there, they have no authority after delegation. It's the fault of DENIC, the German ccTLD local operator. DENIC is a German entity, they are very much within reach of regulators. (That's also the reason why foreign ccTLDs of, eh, semi-stable countries, e.g. .so domains, are risky - should the local operator start to lose it at some point, no-one can help you, neither ICANN nor IANA)
- account42 1y agoThe domain registry isn't even relevant here - the authorities can go directly after Liferando - who are doing business in Germany - no matter what TLD or other medium they use for their fraud.
- xnickb 1y ago> corrupt ICANN Could you elaborate?
- teddyh 1y agoA recent example is what they first did, and then tried to do, to .org in 2019.
- rplnt 1y agoDomain ownership should be progressively taxed. House ownership too for that matter. With houses it's easy to prevent tax evasion by splitting the ownership between multiple entities (because companies shouldn't own housing), but it would be almost impossible with domains...
- jarym 1y ago[flagged]
- literalAardvark 1y agoIt doesn't apply to the masses by definition. Just whoever has "too much" of anything, where "too much" can indeed be defined in a problematic way.
- rad_gruchalski 1y agoWho decides when one has too many of something?
- briandear 1y agoThe people who have less of it.
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- jodrellblank 1y agoAt the point where you’re against Robin Hood, you should be asking yourself “am I the bad guy?”. “You want to stop me monopolising medication to sell at the maximum possible cost? Everyone’s bloody Mother Theresa in this utter hellhole.”
- ctxc 1y agoApparently they not only create the website, but also claim the Google Maps listing using the website and then go on to extort the restaurants for $$$ to add their correct contact details on the listing.
- sschueller 1y agoThis is worse. They are using them to "steal" direct customers.
- alexdns 1y agoit is illegal if you have the trademark you can use the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy to get it back
- jeroenhd 1y agoDENIC (who controls .de) has its own (very... German) dispute system: https://www.denic.de/en/service/dispute https://www.denic.de/en/service/dispute that they would rather you use. It requires mailing a form to request information, then mailing a form to send a dispute (don't be fooled by the web forms or PDFs, those are just tools to generate the documents you need to print, sign, and send). Their FAQ lists why you usually don't want to go for UDNDR when you can help it, though: https://www.denic.de/en/faqs/all-faq#code-106 https://www.denic.de/en/faqs/all-faq#code-106 ICANN's procedures are all nice and dandy if all three parties involved are in the USA, but when it comes to international disputes (in this case the Dutch company registering the domains and the German business being impersonated), things can get pretty complex and expensive real fast.
- erk__ 1y agoIt is not allowed with some domain names such as .DK where you can complain if you see a domain name used in that way.
- Geezus_42 1y agoHow is it different from real estate which people have been hoarding without using for centuries?
- thrance 1y agoLand hoarding should be illegal too. But it's especially egregious when it comes to domain names, as you're paying fortunes to rent imaginary strings of characters, made scarce for absolutely no reason since we have an infinite supply of them.
- vntok 1y agoWe don't have an infinite supply of the abc.com domain, there's just the one. That's the whole point of DNS, to provide unicity across the whole network.