Very old article glorifying domain squatting. Flagged.

krav · on March 14, 2009

I disagree. It's valuable for hackers to see where money's being made on the web. Just 'cause the article is a couple years old doesn't mean that the practice still isn't happening.

alecco · on March 16, 2009

  > I disagree. It's valuable for hackers to see where money's being made on the web.

I know many (probably most) hackers figured this out early on.

  >  Just 'cause the article is a couple years old doesn't mean that the practice still isn't happening.

I didn't say that. Of course it's happening. We're reminded of this mess every time we need to register a domain.

In my case, a domain squatter registered the domain with my name and lastname dot com and had it in ransom-style for years asking 4 digit numbers to transfer it. Network Solutions lives off this scammers and didn't even bother to help. Luckily I got one of the more tame scammers and he didn't put an offensive page. After enduring this for 8 years they let it go and I could register.

It would be good if the big names stop linking and buying domains from this scum. It would be better if the domain name system is redesigned to prevent this behavior.