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How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Post by worez »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #23
zamadatix wrote: post #5

I settled on ds.gy after a lot of searching. At the time I was hoping for as short as possible unless you operate a domain (it's one letter off for standard, 2 if you operate a 2 letter TLD like http://ai./ ) since it maximizes the efficiency of DNS tunneling. I was expecting a lot of similar uses or a log of clever things/url shortners like t.co but what I found was basically every single and most every dual letter…

> like http://ai./ Slightly off topic, but it annoys me to no end that verisign doesn't operate a website at http://com./ I feel like people typing that in, then wondering what the heck just happened would be a great source of people understanding DNS more deeply.

out of curiosity, how does that work?

Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Post by baddox »

unreal37 wrote: post #36

I think a lot of people don't know what "domain squatting" is. If there's a domain you want, but someone else has it but is not using it, that's not squatting. If you let your personal name domain expire, and someone else registers it, that's not squatting. In order for it to be squatting, they have to be trying to profit off a trademark. I assume Jerry Alex is not a trademark. "Cybersquatting (also known as domain s…

> If there's a domain you want, but someone else has it but is not using it, that's not squatting. If you let your personal name domain expire, and someone else registers it, that's not squatting.

But these aren't mutually exclusive with your description of the legal definition of squatting, right? If someone just happens to have the same name as you, and buys your expired personal domain name to use as their personal website, of course that's not cybersquatting. But isn't it cybersquatting if they purchase the domain with the intention of selling it to you at an above-average price?

The US legal definition you posted seems to imply that, with the phrase "trafficking in." I think simply offering the domain for sale with the knowledge that it is probably more valuable than the average domain because of its association to some well-known name or trademark absolutely qualifies as cybersquatting. But I could absolutely be mistaken. That's just my relatively hasty reading of the US law.

Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Post by 14 »

sumedh wrote: post #26
14 wrote: post #24

After reading this I thought what the heck let’s see if I can grab my name. For 15$ I now own my name at a .ca domain. I know I need to find a host I think but literally have no website experience or idea what I need to do next lol.

A .com is more valuable than .ca

I would love to pick up the .com as well however it is up for about $3500usd. That’s a lot of money since I literally just grabbed my .ca domain with no website or business in mind. But I will try have fun with it. Thanks

Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Post by blunte »

zamadatix wrote: post #5

I settled on ds.gy after a lot of searching. At the time I was hoping for as short as possible unless you operate a domain (it's one letter off for standard, 2 if you operate a 2 letter TLD like http://ai./ ) since it maximizes the efficiency of DNS tunneling. I was expecting a lot of similar uses or a log of clever things/url shortners like t.co but what I found was basically every single and most every dual letter…

I got 9z.nz a few years ago. Without spending $$$, it is exceedingly difficult to find a short name. Fortunately, back then, gandi.net had a decent UI and access to many TLDs.

Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Post by kortex »

techntoke wrote: post #47

I personally think that some engineers should just help create some dockerized name servers that can be deployed and do away with ICANN altogether, that way you can have your own TLD without paying $15,000+ dollars a year.

It kind of amazes me that we cannot resolve arbitrary strings as TLD's. Yeah let the .com's and country codes get locked down by the regs, but there's an almost-nowhere-dense space of strings.

I guess the hard part is in resolving contention over particularly desirable strings.

Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Post by lstamour »

worez wrote: post #51
Godel_unicode wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> like http://ai./ Slightly off topic, but it annoys me to no end that verisign doesn't operate a website at http://com./ I feel like people typing that in, then wondering what the heck just happened would be a great source of people understanding DNS more deeply.

out of curiosity, how does that work?

This is surprisingly hard to explain off the cuff. In DNS, zones are separated by dots, and a fully-qualified domain name ends in a dot. The zones exist because there are too many domains for just one server to handle and this way zones can be distributed and managed separately. DNS queries right to left, for “Google.com.” it would look at “.” and query the root servers asking if they know “Google.com.”, they could reply saying ask “.com.” at this IP. Then the .com. servers look up Google.com. and (eventually, there’s one more lookup for a Google server) return its IP address. Google.com. loads in your browser because an A record is returned by a Google name server. “ai.” is an A record returned by the name server for .ai, as registered in the root DNS servers. Similarly, Verisign could register an A record for .com. But they haven’t... um... Google for how DNS works for a more thorough and perhaps animated example.

Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Post by markdown »

unreal37 wrote: post #36

I think a lot of people don't know what "domain squatting" is. If there's a domain you want, but someone else has it but is not using it, that's not squatting. If you let your personal name domain expire, and someone else registers it, that's not squatting. In order for it to be squatting, they have to be trying to profit off a trademark. I assume Jerry Alex is not a trademark. "Cybersquatting (also known as domain s…

Reminds me of the hacking/cracking argument.

The commonly accepted definition of squatting is registering and sitting on a domain with no intention of using it other than to sell it at a profit. How a US-only law defines it isn't really irrelevant.

Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

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Post by pests »

yonran wrote: post #45
oh_sigh wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand how you can ever have a just society if society can deem at any point that your property is too valuable for you to hold anymore. Of course they happens in society today, but I don't see how making it easier for property to be forcibly reallocated would help create a more just society.

Do you realize that the reason the squatter abandoned the domain (instead of keeping it forever) is the $8/year registry fee? My question is why should the squatter pay only $8 per year, and not, say, $50?

Why should they pay $50? What are you charging for above cost of service?
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