[conspire] Piping, redirection and shellscipts: 3/5/2025 7pm Eastern Standard time

[Ron]

Steve Litt wrote on 2025-03-05 14:04:

> Domain squatting? Yeah, everyone thinks the other guy either 
> shouldn't make money or is doing so unethically.

My mistake.

I didn't realize rent-seeking is totally okay if it's to make money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking



> Some questions: Is a coin dealer a coin squatter?
> 
> [...snip...]

Poor analogies - they're often providers of a service, linking buyers
and sellers who are separated spatially and / or temporally.

For better or worse, acting as middle-men but providing some value;
generally avoidable.


Domain squatters insert themselves between the buyer and seller
and offer zero value, just extract "rent" for nothing.



Some registrars have rules against "Registration in Bad Faith", defined
by, inter alia:

> the Registrant registered the domain name, or acquired the 
> Registration, primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, 
> licensing or otherwise transferring the Registration to the 
> Complainant, or the Complainant’s licensor or licensee of the Mark, 
> or to a competitor of the Complainant or the licensee or licensor 
> for valuable consideration in excess of the Registrant’s actual 
> costs in registering the domain name, or acquiring the Registration;

TL;DR:

> the Registrant registered the domain name primarily for the purpose 
> of selling the Registration to the Complainant, for valuable
> consideration in excess of the Registrant’s actual costs in
> registering the domain name

IANAL, but ask 2 lawyers and likely get four opinions on whether
registering domains to profit from them is allowed.


Unfortunately, the dispute process is so expensive that only clear
trademark infringements are worth pursuing.



Debatable on whether these count as bad faith unless there is a company
called Age Bias Inc. that wants them, who knows?

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   1:	age-bias.com                $74,500
   2:	agebias.biz                  $9,900
   3:	age-bias.biz                 $9,900
   4:	agebias.net                  $9,900
   5:	agebias.us                   $9,900
   6:	age-bias.net                 $4,900
   7:	age-bias.us                  $4,900

Total: $123,900.00
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