From: "Simon Sheppard"
Newsgroups: alt.domain-names.wanted
Subject: Re: Domain name speculators
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:50:03 +0100
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Thanks for your comments. I don't mind paying the odd $50 - although I
believe I shouldn't have to, because usually the domain isn't being used and
should have been put back into the pool - but when you're looking for a set
of domains for a new project, to start from nothing, and every bloody
combination and common phrase has been taken by scumbags in America, Hong
Kong and North Korea, who are just sitting on it, it makes you bloody angry.
They have thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of names. It is people
like me who invented the internet (the British Tim Berners-Lee to be
precise), and these parasites are creaming the benefit. Why should this be
allowed, simply because they are quicker on a mouse click? Most don't have
any other abilities. They are parasites, pure and simple.
If you want the full analysis go to www.heretical.com. Speed of response,
and parasitism, are female characteristics - invention is a male
characteristic. While I'm sure I could do to "lighten up" I realise the
situation is serious, extending beyond just domain names, and warrants
action. One shouldn't be "laid back" and "take it easy" if you are being
walked over. Unless you are a mug, which I am not.
Thanks again for your response, perhaps later I'll add my remarks to the
other issues you raise (big companies etc.) when I have a bit more time.
Simon Sheppard
Al B. Bock wrote in message
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>"Simon Sheppard" wrote in message
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>> Does anyone want to collaborate on schemes to fuck up domain name
>> speculators? I'm sick to the teeth of them.
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>> Simon Sheppard
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>Simon, See you jumped over to DN's Wanted to solicit support to fxxk
>up DN speculators. Wow, you must have really been burned somewhere
>down the line. Why so much animosity! For my part, I have a few names
>I've made small investments in and would be gratified if someone would
>acknowledge the value of one of my ideas by making a small investment
>of their own.
>I'm not interested in highway robbery or gloating over my catch-that's
>misdirected ego and not business. I think in general, a return equal
>to the investment plus some compensation for time spent searching,
>thinking, administering i.e. an hour @ $25 is not out of line. An
>average domain name, for an average buyer, than, would come out to
>roughly $50US.
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>If I had a name like MSN.com, and had beat their marketing dept. to
>the punch, you bet I'd hire a negotiator and make as much money as
>possible. If, as you predict, the sky is falling in on the U.S.
>economy (an opinion I do not share), it is not the small entrepreneurs
>who are at fault. I would point you to the large corporations who have
>consolidated, lobbied for their special interests and, in essence,
>have been instrumental in creating a sub-economy composed of
>entrepreneurial individuals who are working to survive. If I had
>something one of these corporations wanted, you bet I might have a
>sense of "puerile smugness", although I doubt I would exhibit it.
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>To the average buyer, whom, I assume, also has an entrepreneurial
>motive in mind, $50-$100 would be a fair price to pay for a website
>address.
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>Lighten up man, or at least focus your anger at the right target.