Comments on: What You Need, When You Need It

By: Pissed Off Mofo

Pissed Off Mofo — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:13:59 +0000

Hey thanks for getting the word out on this. I am SOOOOO sick of people squatting on domains. There was one day a while back I typed in 20 random domains that had useful names and would have been useful sites. But EVERY one of them was a “what you need when you need it” B.S. useless site. It should be forbidden to buy a domain unless you have a previously-existing verifiable business associated with it. Squatter sites should be considered “Browsing Spam” and should be shut down. As far as I’m concerned, the whole internet has become a toilet thanks to greedy people (and No, a site of ad links is not the least bit useful, anyone trying to defend such a site probably owns one). I am middle aged and have never had a “mission” or “life purpose”. But cleaning this crap off the face of the earth shall be mine, henceforth.

By: ÀñGRY ÑÔÔß

ÀñGRY ÑÔÔß — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:30:26 +0000

@jojo

How can you call someone retarded while thinking a two year old can have a credit card? Perhaps you aren’t aware of these things called “laws”.

Or maybe you’re the “retarded” one.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:51:15 +0000

To the first person who left a comment: 2 year olds can register domain names, have credit cards, and are able to use the computer proficiently that way? Are you RETARDED?!

By: Squatters Suck Dick

Squatters Suck Dick — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:56:41 +0000

Well “Domainer” I don’t care if you think its a legitimate business its not supposed to be a business your not supposed to make money with out work that a 2 year old with a computer can do. This is Why more people need to graduate high school so they don’t become a squatter they ruin out internet and nobody really cares for them eventually i hope people will use that back button and stop revenues from coming in for em that and i hope they never make a dime from it it takes away from what is supposed to be the “people place” for us to use for our purposes not to make money by buying all the domain names people don’t have and accidentally type in and putting adds to make money off of on them

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:41:11 +0000

Domainer (aka cybersquatter): Registering domain names and parking them to generate ad revenue is as legitimate as any extortion scheme. Any existing small business probably has its name squatted. Any new business with a name that even vaguely represents its service or products probably has its name squatted.

Oh, they’re “available” for a price, the squatter will say. “If you want your customers to find you, then pay me, or else I will siphon your customers looking for your name away from you.” Squatters have created a problem and now demand money to cure it. That’s the definition of extortion. There’s good money in it, as Al Capone demonstrated when he did the same thing – and also called his organization a “legitimate business!”

By: Breanna

Breanna — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:52:56 +0000

Thank you for the article! I have a question… you mention trademarking in your article. So, if there is a website out there that lands on one of these pages and the name is not trademarked, what happens if you start a business and trademark the name? Can you then get the website back?

By: Domainer

Domainer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:55:06 +0000

Registering domain names and parking them to generate ad revenue is a perfectly legitimate business venture.

Just because they are ads doesn’t make the links on the parked domain any less useful to someone browsing the site.

Google search result pages display ads. So do you avoid using Google because someone may be earning revenue by posting ads there?

By: Ignorant

Ignorant — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:18:38 +0000

This is just ignorant.

“I went to biotechnology.org and guess what I found.
They wrote that they want to sell it for $90,000.
As far as I know, a .org domain worths about $10.”

You are right that .org domains are of less value than .com, but such a generic term as bio technology which gets over 200,000 exact searches per month has value because of that. Let us valuate and compare it to the .com:

BioTechnology.com – 576,000$
BioTechnology.org – 6500$

He might have overpriced BioTechnology.org, but with the right buyer he may even get 90k.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:10:00 +0000

I daresay that since this web page mentions the dreaded “what you need, when you need it” tagline more than once (whoops, there we go again, tick!) -or perhaps not within a HTML HEAD clause, that a certain search algorithm ranks it upward.
Great info BTW Stephen, thanks for your service to web surfers everywhere.

By: Mark McGrath

Mark McGrath — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:39:14 +0000

© I created that slogan, its not trademarked so email me if you want to accuse me of cyber squatting. I would like to know who is profiting from this. If you know, please do email the aforementioned address. •