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| said by justin  :My issue isn't domain name hijacking - that is a whole other subject that we've had to pay lawyers a lot of $$$s to deal with, and it isn't even dealt with yet! More just the whole business of domain name banks and reselling smells off to me. It smells like scalping. I'd agree that it does feel like scalping, since I've tried (unsuccessfully) to get a variety of domain names in a myriad of suffixes, with no success. (Virtually every domain in .us is registered, I think)
On the other hand, while it bothers me, it's basically the same "bother" as driving by a nice tract of land every day on the way to work, and wishing I owned it. I didn't get there first, or have the capital to invest, or any other of a number of reasons; any way the salami is sliced, I don't own that land, and I'm jealous. Same with domain names. I'd love to have the three letter "variant" of a domain I already own, but there's no chance of that. Therefore, I'm jealous of the current owner, and it torques me off that he's willing to "sell" me the domain at a price higher than I can either justify (a.k.a. the wife factor) or afford ($10,000 for a database entry?!).
Such is life, I suppose.
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