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Archive for March 28, 2008
Domain Squatters and a Shot at Redemption
March 28, 2008 by mrbizplan.
I spent the morning searching for a domain for a upcoming venture of mine. This is probably the five hundredth time I have searched for a domain for one reason or another and my favorite tool for searching is the “whois” look-up on www.domaintools.com. I have come to the conclusion that domain squatters are some of the lowest of the low.
These people snap up thousands of the best domains and then use them for nothing other than to try to make a quick buck. Now…obviously I am not against capitalism. I own several businesses myself, so hear me out.
Starting a business is hard and getting exposure for your business is even harder. Finding the perfect domain for your business can be a godsend and finding out someone else owns that domain, who is not even using that domain and has no intention to other than to charge you an exorbitant fee to acquire it, is a nightmare. So the wary entrepreneur goes and looks for another similar domain and winds up with something full of dashes, dreadfully long, and/or full of uncommonly used words.
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