Tuesday, Tuesday, August 21, 2001, 1:35:00 AM, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> People have called this "domain prospecting". As if there are domain
> mines (or oil fields) and they have as much right as anyone to "get a
> piece of the action" by staking a claim on a piece of electronic land.
> I disagree with this completely. If you register and hold a domain,
> you make it unavailable for use elsewhere. If I want to buy a car and
> keep it 50 years then sell it as an antique, I'm not taking anything
> away from anyone else.
Fiddlesticks. If you own a car, or a piece of real estate (more
appropriate comparison here), you are depriving anyone else from
owning it. The fact that the manufacturer makes more of that auto
available (additional TLDs?) is of no relevance whatsoever.
> That's not the Internet I grew up in.
Welcome to the new Internet. I'm sure you wouldn't go back to the old
days. Part of accepting change is that you take the things you like
and the things you dislike.
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