Hey William,
One thing domain brokers usually say is "domain brokers are like real estate
brokers, there is nothing wrong with that".
However, refering to your example, I think if I buy whatever.com, you cannot
buy _another_ whatever.com, even though whatever is the name of your
company. But you can always buy just another [insert favourite car brand
here]. And you can even chose from hundreds of very similar houses (not
considering the White one...) - but have you ever tried to register a
sex-related domain name, which is less than 20 characters long? I think
analogy is sometimes misleading. It just reminds me of this "nice" thing
that happened in Ethiopia, when speculators bought all the rice, and sold
most of it later for a fortune. Yes, they have made a good deal of money.
Actually they did not do anything illegal I think... that was also like real
estate speculation, right? I guess we have all seen those pictures...
Now see, this is another analogy.
- Csongor
ps: But we had this discussion on this list many times...
----- Original Message -----
From: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "easygoing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:24 AM
Subject: Re[2]: Slowing ?
> Hello easygoing,
>
> Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 5:48:04 PM, easygoing wrote:
>
> > Frankly I think this is good.
>
> > I have never liked the idea of cybersquatting and have always felt that
if a
> > domain name was not being used within a reasonable time frame, say six
> > months of purchase, it should go back into the pool for someone else to
use.
>
> Yes, we should do the same for real estate, automobiles, and stamps
> and currency (especially old ones).
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
