Domainers Leaching other Domainers
I recognize that domain squatting (specifically TM squatting) is a bad thing. Making cash off of someone else’s work really does give our industry a bad stigma. Despite that, I dont really have any ill-will towards squatters, I figure they’re playing a dangerous game, one of which I don’t really want a part of. I do however take exception to the domainer who buys typos of other domainers sites.
For example, we have a partenership with Estibot, where every few months we provide them with sales data. I happened to want to run a domain name through their system but typed in the wrong address. I accidentally directed my browser to Estibo.com (missed the T). This domain, owned by Barney Pedrino (if thats a real name) is parked with Fabulous and even has the title “Estibot.”
Two things made me laugh. The first is, only Domainers are really going to Estibot and we are less likely then anyone else to click on advertisements as we are all too familiar with parked pages. Secondly, I expected the domain to have privacy, as who would really want their name and address publicly accessable when squatting on a domain like this. Nope. His information is clear as day.
Long ago when I was a teacher I used to tell people that students who were so dumb they needed to cheat were to dumb to do it well. Same principle here I think.
Comment by Paul — June 24, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
Listen jackass estibot got in touch with me today,i had my domain automatically parked at fabulous.com,I did not use a keyword fabulous must also have a relationship with them to use that name automatically,I have since deleted it from that site but will parl it somewhere else,if i was going to use this name as squating for estibot why would i not just use free domain appraisals instead jack.
Comment by barney — August 19, 2008 @ 8:58 pm