Stop Internet Domain Name Squatters

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We, the undersigned, believe that what is happening nowadays, regarding the handling of expired internet domain names, by most of the registrars, is nothing but a crude form of extortion.
Making use of squatters, even if indirectly, those registrars are preventing the access of legitimate companies and individuals to expired domain names at a fair and reasonable price.
We demand that ICANN takes the appropriate measures against this situation through the creation of a "well known squatter list". A list of people and/or companies that clearly register domain names with the only intent of profit through the re-sale of domain names at exorbitant prices, ten or more times higher than an initial domain registration cost, and/or occupy those domains web spaces with the clear intent of only generating traffic for third party contractors, not making a direct and legitimate use of it. While listed in that database, those individuals and/or companies would be disallowed to register any internet domain names.
Also, we demand that ICANN establishes a fixed, fair, and clearly justified value, for the fee to apply to the rightful owner of a domain name, by the registrar, if he intends to regain posession of the expiring domain name while in the what is known as the Redemption Period.
Finally we demand that expiring domain names do not end up on on-line auctions and are simply removed for the database, put back in the pool of available names, so that they can again be registered by anyone at the usual new domain names registering prices.

56 Signatures

  • Carlos Ferreira
    • Comments
    • I agree. We have to make a stand!
  • Ricardo Rodrigues
  • Vasco Fonseca
  • Lowe Schmidt
  • Cory Wright
  • Robert Sanderson
  • Darlene Thompson
  • Emilio Perea
  • Lloyd Zusman
  • Hugo Monteiro
    • Comments
    • В
  • Tiago Severina
  • Nuno Miguel Barbosa Rodrigues
    • Comments
    • Abaixo a selva...
  • Pedro Silva
  • Ricardo Seabra
  • Andrй Gil
  • Carla Farinha
    • Comments
    • В
  • John Mayer
  • Nuno Gaspar
    • Comments
    • Kick them in the nads!
  • martin randall
    • Comments
    • They are all crooks !!!
  • Kevin Borders
  • Francisco Temudo
  • David Williamson
    • Comments
    • End Cybersquatting!
  • Angelique
  • Todd Norbury
  • Jonathan Malouf
    • Comments
    • I hate domain squatters!
  • Ryan Landrum
  • Craig Dewe
  • Charles Norton
  • Dennis Kisilyov
    • Comments
    • Remove directNIC and it's conglomerate from doing back handed deals between themselves to fleese the consumers and business owners
  • John Hawes
  • Wilma Lensink
    • Comments
    • This practice is also rife in South Africa
  • Noel Houck
  • kamal singh
  • Erica Strahon
    • Comments
    • This really needs to stop
  • Ken Coupland
    • Comments
    • I am a registered trade marked company in Canada and am ticked someone can register a domain name (my name) and hose me to get it transferred!
  • Jeremy Friesen
  • Jeffrey Wood
  • Luke Price
    • Comments
    • Finding a semantic domain is nigh on impossile with people doing this sort of thing. I'd be happy to pay extra to stop it.
  • Matt Collins
  • Steve Jones
    • Comments
    • This crap needs to end!!!
  • Keith Smith
  • Pete Ahacich
  • Victor Plones
  • Mathew J. Laycock
  • Krista-Marie Bergeron
  • kyle lalonde
  • Sonja Schipilow
  • Larry David
    • Comments
    • This is a good cause.
  • Kim Jurado
  • Eric Theriault