interesting...

http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr10aug01.htm

why do i get the idea a domain i have been after for awile will take even longer to expire now? It expired a few months ago as it is.

That is interesting... I wonder what all those people who make money off of selling deleted domain name lists and the like are going to do?

this is very good news. People who make money out of such deleted domain are mostly frauds and cheats and threat to whole internet communities and trade mark practices. They should be done long time ago. :blush:

Hmm, the domain I want expired some 10 days ago and I was waiting for it to drop - guess that's not gona happen anywhen soon.

They, ICANN, should have expected this would happen long ago. If you think this sucks, wait till they release the .biz & .info TLD's :eek:

Perhaps slightly off-topic, but I am wondering if cybersquatting really pays off. Do companies such as greatdomains.com and others make good business? Who's willing to spend a few hundred $$$ or more for a "great domain"? I'd rather choose an alternate domain name than feeding these speculators. :mad:

1500 attempts per second? Yikes. I'm not sure how to solve this, but ceasing batch drops isn't going to quell the natives for long. :D

Originally posted by thomas1
Perhaps slightly off-topic, but I am wondering if cybersquatting really pays off. Do companies such as greatdomains.com and others make good business? Who's willing to spend a few hundred $$$ or more for a "great domain"? I'd rather choose an alternate domain name than feeding these speculators. :mad:

I'm not 'for' cybersquatting but I guess some people do actually make money out of domains speculation. Take business.com for example. For the regular person, we do not have access to large sums of money to just spend it on a name or might not want to, but I guess some corporations think differently. :)