A domain investor “owns” the land and is not the squatter, per se.įebruary 19th, 2011 at 10:24 because they want some kind of “established, objective source” for lack of a better term. Someone got the corner lot in the center of town before they did.Ī squatter is someone who resides on land or property owned by someone else, so the analogy isn’t even fitting. These people that make these remarks need their effin heads examined.Īll it comes down to is jealousy. Squatters? I suppose people who purchase tracts of land are also squatters. Thank you for putting in the effort to get them to put the proper terms down! Not many do that, so thanks again for doing it. Why don’t they just ask us – actual domainers – for the definition instead of pulling something out of their hind ends? Hello? ’s definition is better, but still misleading and inaccurate. Plus I just tell them that I am an Internet Spy, always good for a laugh.Īpparently I commented on your previous post a little too soon. I don’t normally tell people what I do for a living because I still get a little bit of flack from some people. Good effort! Maybe the empty lot in the Bahamas you aren’t using analogy would help everyone understand the value of undeveloped “virtual” generic real estate. Rob needs to add “trademarked names and brands” after “domain squatters will buy”.Īlso adding a sentence explaining that generic word domain investing is not squatting would help. The second sentence still reads like investors are squatters. The domain squatter can then sell the URL for a profit.” “Domain squatters will buy an un-owned domain name hoping that a company or individual will later find it pertinent to their business or simply important to own. “The definition of domain squatter is one who purchases trademarked or branded domain names in bad faith with the intent to sell them later to individuals or companies for a profit.” Many people might not want to put an effort like you have done. However, upon further review, we realize that that distinction should have been explicit in the definition so as not to cast a negative shadow on the many ethical domain investors out there (including the many domain investors who frequent this site). In our original entry, the “bad faith” portion of the “domain squatter” definition was implicit. We recognize the difference between legitimate domain investors and domain squatters and we have corrected our definition to reflect the correct interpretation of the word. I just wanted to say thank you for your critical eye. My name is Rob Frappier and I’m the Community Manager for. The updated definition can be found on this page and here’s Rob’s official response: Would they have apologized if my post hadn’t ranked on Google for their name (they’re a reputation management company, so it should come as no surprise that they monitor such terms closely)? Probably not but nobody’s perfect and at the end of the day, what matters is that they finally did the right thing. They should also apologize to Christine in my opinion (they can easily find her email address via their live chat log or simply request the email address she used when commenting from me and I’ll ask for her permission to share it) because as you can see HERE, she was reasonable to say the least and only received canned responses. Today, Rob from did the right thing by apologizing on (he also sent me an email) and editing the previous definition.Īs a result, I have edited my initial post as well as the second one so as not to cause harm to ’s online… reputation □ This approached pissed me off, so I wrote another blog post and got the initial one to rank for their name. After I blogged about how called all domainers “squatters” through their definition, a reader (Christine) contacted them via live chat and received canned responses.
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