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mike
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Something has bothered me a long time. It is how effectively the TM lobby has coined and promoted the catchy negative label of "Cybersquatters" to paint virtually all domain registrants, and our community as a whole, with the same brush. Instead of being referred to for what we really are (entrepreneurs, developers, and grass root capitalists), we're called Cybersquatters! Need an example? They successfully lobbied to have a domain reform bill in 1999 called the "Anti-Cybersquatters Act" or some such nonsense.
I say we fight back by coming up with a catchy negative term that describes the TM lobby and their despicable reverse domain hijacking activities.
I think Its gotta be a great desciptive term (like Cybersquatters) that clearly conveys their crimes against free market capitalism.
Mix a little viral marketing about specific cases of reverse domain hijacking fed to the media, along with our new headline grabbing negative term for them, and we might be able to turn the tide on them on the media war they are now winning.
The alternatives I have come up with to describe reverse domain hijackers are:
Cyberjackers
Namejackers
Urljackers
Trademark Thugs
Trademark Terrorists
You get the point. I'll take the best ones and do a poll on it. If you have thought of one in the past or can think of one now, please post it here.
I say we fight back by coming up with a catchy negative term that describes the TM lobby and their despicable reverse domain hijacking activities.
I think Its gotta be a great desciptive term (like Cybersquatters) that clearly conveys their crimes against free market capitalism.
Mix a little viral marketing about specific cases of reverse domain hijacking fed to the media, along with our new headline grabbing negative term for them, and we might be able to turn the tide on them on the media war they are now winning.
The alternatives I have come up with to describe reverse domain hijackers are:
Cyberjackers
Namejackers
Urljackers
Trademark Thugs
Trademark Terrorists
You get the point. I'll take the best ones and do a poll on it. If you have thought of one in the past or can think of one now, please post it here.