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Since we're going off-topic: what's the difference between selling a domain name for higher than nominal ICANN price and domain squatting? I'm not being faceti

Since we're going off-topic: what's the difference between selling a domain name for higher than nominal ICANN price and domain squatting? I'm not being facetious, honestly if you're not using the name right now, you either let it go at registry price or you join the ranks of domain squatters and don't get to complain about them anymore. Or am I missing something? I'm always open to changing my opinion, please help me find some good arguments against it.

wodenokoto 11y ago
Maybe he has some IP surrounding the original business that he is selling along with the domain? But good question and good point, I hadn't thought about this before.
Kiro 11y ago
Where is he complaining about domain squatters?
- nothrabannosir 11y ago
  It's a non-confrontational way to express disapproval. It helps to keep the discussion civil, as opposed to jumping the gun and calling people names, which would just elicit animosity. Additionally, it gives me an easy way out if it turns out I was wrong: no harm, no foul.
fenomas 11y ago
I'd have thought the difference would be whether it's a domain that you're speculating might be valuable to anybody, versus one that you assume to have value to someone specific. E.g. buying "learn-brainfuck.com" because you think it's going to be the next big language, vs. buying "github.kr" for when they eventually open a Korean office. Not that one's any better than the other, but I think people tend to call the former "speculation" and the latter "squatting".
amyjess 11y ago
Domain squatting usually means sitting on somebody else's trademark, not simply registering a name that you expect might become popular. (edit: I turned on showdead for a minute to see the flagged comment. Yeah, he's selling github.id, that makes him a squatter.)

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Since we're going off-topic: what's the difference between selling a domain name for higher than nominal ICANN price and domain squatting? I'm not being faceti

by nothrabannosir 11y ago

wodenokoto 11y ago
Maybe he has some IP surrounding the original business that he is selling along with the domain? But good question and good point, I hadn't thought about this before.
Kiro 11y ago
Where is he complaining about domain squatters?
- nothrabannosir 11y ago
  It's a non-confrontational way to express disapproval. It helps to keep the discussion civil, as opposed to jumping the gun and calling people names, which would just elicit animosity. Additionally, it gives me an easy way out if it turns out I was wrong: no harm, no foul.
fenomas 11y ago
I'd have thought the difference would be whether it's a domain that you're speculating might be valuable to anybody, versus one that you assume to have value to someone specific. E.g. buying "learn-brainfuck.com" because you think it's going to be the next big language, vs. buying "github.kr" for when they eventually open a Korean office. Not that one's any better than the other, but I think people tend to call the former "speculation" and the latter "squatting".
amyjess 11y ago
Domain squatting usually means sitting on somebody else's trademark, not simply registering a name that you expect might become popular. (edit: I turned on showdead for a minute to see the flagged comment. Yeah, he's selling github.id, that makes him a squatter.)