[Novalug] Domain name blues

[Angelo Bertolli]

I have nothing against online advertisement, and I'm not talking about 
real sites.  I mean the sites which are JUST ad sites because people 
snap up a bunch of popular domain names solely for the sake of reselling 
the domains and/or putting junk ads on them.  I'm sure you've seen them 
before.

One thing I've noticed is that they may just register domain names 
containing commonly searched keywords, hoping that they'll just get 
traffic based on that fact.  So to test this, I thought of something:  
"new in 2008" and checked to see if it was a domain.  So instead of me 
posting the URL, just remove the whitespace and add .com, and you'll see 
what I mean.

The problem is that this does a disservice to all of us.  I never really 
cared in the past, but it's just getting worse and worse every year.  
It's kind of annoying.

Angelo



Jay Hart wrote:
> Laws???  Cyber litter???
>
> As a brick and mortor company, don't you think you should have the right to
> advertise on the side of the your building, on the glass windows, etc,
> whatever you want, without being hindered?  I assume that your advertisements
> are appropriate.
>
> So, why should things work differently in cyber land?
>
> Jay
>
>   
>> While I like the freeness and openness of the Internet, I'm getting
>> really tired of there not being any good domain names to register simply
>> because people register them only to put up junk ad sites.  Do we have
>> any laws at all regarding cyber litter?
>>
>> Angelo
>>
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