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Stop Domain Name Parking and Cybersquatting

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  • Start Date:
    6-12-2007
  • Last Signed:
    8-17-2010

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To ICANN President and CEO, Dr. Paul Twomey We, the undersigned, are concerned about domain name parking abuse and request that ICANN revisit the Anti-Cyberssquatting Consumer Protection Act and the Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act to ensure that a domain names that are parked would be available for sale at a price tag that would not be considered extortion. We request that ‘Cybersquatting’ issues be discussed, reviewed and formalized this year into a written law to help stop the continuation of domain parking as an extortionist means that cause legitimate businesses to pay high price for the domain name.
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Submitted on 5-30-2010
This is ****...I need a domain for my not for profit company that doesn't even have the budget of a drug dealer...and he's expecting me to pay $12,000
Submitted on 8-3-2010
So get the drug dealer to purchase the name for you and then ask him to lease it back to you. Business is business. Do you get pissed off because some developer purchased a large tract of land right where you, 5 years AFTER, would also like to build on? Grow up.
Submitted on 8-3-2010
So get the drug dealer to purchase the name for you and then ask him to lease it back to you. Business is business. Do you get pissed off because some developer purchased a large tract of land right where you, 5 years AFTER, would also like to build on? Grow up.
Submitted on 8-9-2010
I p***** myself laughing to the fact that YOU signed this petioion, yet you criticised everyone who did. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Druggie
Submitted on 7-19-2010
Drug dealers get paid well from what I hear...
Submitted on 5-13-2010
I need to park my domain name and I don't know who I got it from as I rewewed on the internet can you pleaSE ADVISE> Thanks Rick Brewer
Submitted on 4-15-2010
Its tome to stop this practice that is hurting the economy once and for all.
Submitted on 8-3-2010
Hurting the economy? How the F? What's hurting our economy is Obama, Pelosi, Reid and their cronies. Whats hurting our economy is OUTSOURCING of US jobs to India, OUTSOURCING of US manufacturing to China. THAT is what is hurting our economy you dimwit.
Submitted on 8-10-2010
If I throw a stick, will you go away?
Submitted on 4-15-2010
This is a very important petition. Cybersquatting is hurting economic growth. It's time to stop this practice once and for all. A.Isaak, New York
Submitted on 8-3-2010
Really? Either you smoked dope in business class or you slept through it or more likely, you havent the faintest clue regarding business.
Submitted on 8-9-2010
You are an arrogant little ****
Submitted on 3-2-2010
Domain squatting drives me nucking futs! Every so often I find a link on a forum only to discover that it takes me to some low-life scum who can only do domain squatting. I think websites that are occupied by domain squatters should be deleted palin and simple and their servers denied internet access.
Submitted on 2-28-2010
The people arguing that domain parking/squatting is akin to real estate speculation are just making excuses for unethical behavior that should be illegal. If it's the same as real estate speculation then after you have your domain appraised at 10-20k you should start paying taxes on it in proportion to that value. This way if you're not using it effectively in a business sense then you have to pay the taxes out of pocket. A real business on the same "e real estate" would be producing revenue and thus paying taxes. If I own a city block in NY city and I try to hold out until a real developer comes along to put up a high-rise I would have to pay the taxes until I sold it. The notion that people should be able to purchase such a finite commodity for $10 and then try and turn around and realize a 100,000% return on investment is more than a little criminal. Another option would be to have an escalating cost per domain that an organization or individual wanted to own. Anyone who owns more than 10 domain names might start paying a premium and anyone who owns more than 50/100 would be forced to pay large luxury taxes. There's a lot of ways the govt could step in and handle this. ICANN is a govt granted monopoly to some extent (3rd party registrars being licensees on the ICANN system), it used to be a lot worse when netsol was charging $70 for 2 years and there was no other option. But our govt. should enact a system to keep the net open to new business, not let greed mongers bottle up the gateway with a ridiculous tariff that impedes the very economy that these free market pirates are trying to argue should protect them.
Submitted on 7-19-2010
This is genius.
Submitted on 8-3-2010
This is sheer retardation. Government has NEVER stepped in and handled ANYTHING correctly.
Submitted on 8-9-2010
Retardation! Coming from you!
Submitted on 2-15-2010
domain squatting is destroying the internet. I assume that those in power who have allowed this to happen are finaically benefitting. THis has severely hurt world exonomy in my opnion. Now, if i want to start a small business, i cant, because i am being jacked up by some cyber squatters who sit on all the sensible names and have no intention to use them. unlike peopel who buy real estate as an investment, these peope pay no taxes, dont mantain anything, invest almost nothing. Their only creativity is that they were faster to be willing to pimp out the amazing internet. It is very sad that this was allowed to happen. The whores have arrived.
Submitted on 8-3-2010
"hurt the world economy"? Are you on dope? Get a brain. **** waste of oxygen.
Submitted on 8-10-2010
Ha! You criticise people telling them to get a brain, when all you do is support retardation! First off, I'm a CEO, and I totally agree. I have about £200 million's worth of companies, and the worst s**t that pees me off is people holding domains for ransom when the info has been leaked from someone in the company. So I agree, the whores have arrived, in the shape of Logical V. PS, get a life. If I wanted to be pi**ed off then I would have coffee with Mark Zuckerburg, which I did the other day. F*** OFF!
Submitted on 2-13-2010
Squatters are the lowest life form. Parking and squatting stile the market. Its not about free market, its about extortion. It should be like trademark law - applicants must base their application on current use of the mark in commerce , or their intent to use their mark in commerce in the future. - "Use in commerce" must be a bona fide use of the mark in the ordinary course of trade, and not use simply made to reserve rights in the mark. Under ICANN you can challenge a domain if it infringes on a trademark - so trademark trumps domain. It logically follows that amending domain registration to include a sworn intent to use statement would be a reasonable remedy.
Submitted on 8-3-2010
When you grow up and graduate from mommy's basement with free Internet, maybe you can go to college, get some brains and join ICANN and make the change yourself. Until then, step aside.
Submitted on 8-10-2010
When you escaped imprisonment from your moms womb captivity then you might like to learn a few things about the real world.
Submitted on 8-9-2010
Sorry, I like to post on d***head walls. Did your mom drop you on your head at birth?
Submitted on 1-16-2010
Grow up babies. The free market will determine proper prices for domain names. Diamonds are in the ground and are just carbon. So Debeers should give them away. Stop crying and learn about supply and demand.
Submitted on 5-30-2010
Well, you know...there's a lot of diamonds in Africa...take a look at how great their "free market" is doing. That, and I think it would better help if YOU grow up...grow up until you die.
Submitted on 8-10-2010
Or die now :)
Submitted on 8-3-2010
So, I was correct. You want stuff for free. You dont think you should have to pay for anything. Why dont you first practice that ideology on your utility company, your car insurance and loan company.. even your home loan. NONE of those items are necessities of life, so dont even go there. I wasnt born yesterday. FOOD... ha - walk into a grocery store OR even a Burger King and demand free food. "grow up until you die".... I place you at about 14 years old TOPS. Even if you are 20-30 years senior that.
Submitted on 8-10-2010
Do you have Aspergers, because you seem to mkae abig deal out of nothing. You make no sense, dyslexic, you get angry easy, autistic, and you p*ss people off, sounds like someone who uses a fake id, because yours scared that the Liberals will hunt you down. I'd place you with a mental age of 3, tops.
Submitted on 1-16-2010
Nothing wrong with owning and parking domain names. The free market will set reasonable prices. Like the previous poster said, if you own land, it's up to you to build on it. And if you want to build but only can afford swamp land, then that's your choice. Grow up!
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