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The Difference Between Domaining and Cybersquatting

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The Difference Between Domaining and Cybersquatting

Postby Drizzle on Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:19 am

One day I was talking to my elder sister about domaining. She was shocked and told me that I should be ashamed of myself for doing what I do. She proceeded to tell me that her husband had to deal with a cybersquatter in court. Instead of hearing me out, she decided to side with her husband into not seeing the difference between domaining and cybersquatting.

By definition, there is a difference. By law, there is a difference. I see this difference...why can't many people see this difference?

Briefly, domaining is simply the selling/buying and reselling of domain names for a profit. Cybersquatting is also domaining - but trying to profit out of a company's hard work (usually regging a trademarked domain). Cybersquatting is unethical and I can't believe anyone would do that. But domaining is downright common sense. :D ;) It's simply like buying a cheap piece of land that nobody owned before and reselling it at a higher price for a profit. There's nothing wrong with domaining...is there?
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