Painting With Too Broad a Brush
Painting With Too Broad a Brush:
Gigalaw's Doug Isenberg, in a CNet Op-Ed: "Today, cybersquatters have rebranded themselves as 'domainers.'..." I don't know if that's true, but the converse is certainly not true. The vast majority of "domainers" are not running afoul of the law, and the Isenberg piece does a significant injustice
to bulk registrants everywhere by painting them as "cybersquatters" and
denigrating the conferences and communities that support their
legitimate and lawful interests in domain name catalogs.
Add: From Domain Name Wire, which notes that Isenberg is a WIPO UDRP panelist: "I’d hate to have a UDRP decision fall into his hands if he goes in with this bias...."
Double Add: Isenberg also decries Internet "'monetization' services--which quickly let domain name registrants
turn otherwise unused, or parked, Web pages into money via affiliate
links that often trade on the goodwill established by well-known brand
owners--are finding a large and growing customer base of hungry and
often shrewd domain name registrants." Isenberg might want to talk to Vint Cerf about
this. His company runs a little service called "Google Ads," which is
probably the most popular and effective "monetization" service used by
"domainers."
How long until John Berryhill weighs in?