From: "Thomas Li" <mybestnames@gmail.com><p>Subject: important domain names: octopart.cn & octopart.com.cn<p>
Dear Sirs,<p>
We have octopart.cn & octopart.com.cn and found that the domains are useful for you if you want to explore China market.<p>
We can really consider selling them out if you are interested in them.<p>
Please get back to us with your kind offer.<p>
Thanks<p>
Regards,
<p>Thomas
These are not "cybersquatters". Octo and Part are generic terms. <p>One of the domains I own is a combination of a word that means "software" and another word that means "place you like to go". I got it for a developers site... and then after I got it I discovered that there was an italian maker of luxury goods whose trademark is that word - apparently the combination of these two english words makes another word completely in italian.<p>Am I cybersquatting? I've considered selling this domain to them because its much better than the one that they are currently using. If I sell it to them, then they will be getting a better domain at a price that they think is fair (or they wouldn't be buying it). <p>Some may say I'm being opportunistic and this is wrong- well, I say that my intent was elsewhere and this was a surprise coincidence... but that my intent isnt' really relevant. If I'd registered the name then I have perfect rights to it-- after all if they'd wanted it, why didn't they register it? If I register it and several years later they decide they want it-- what gives them the right to demand that I give it to them for free? <p>Finally, the truth is that I didn't register this domain, I bought it at auction. so, what's to say what a fair price is?<p>The idea that these people are "cybersquatters" is an idea of entitlement-- its based on the false notion that you somehow have a right to domain names, even though you didn't register them when they were free. <p>This is false. Domain names are an open territory- if you think of it and register it, its yours. If you later realize you should have registered it, then its you're error, not the error of the preson who did register it.<p>They arent' scamming you, they are asking for compensation for the risk they took in registering it. If hte price they ask is higher than the value of the domain (and if you have foo.com then foo.cn isn't really that valuable, is it?) then just don't buy it and let the owner of foo.cn use it for whatever they want.... why should you care?<p>If they are using a domain to pretend to be you-- then that would be one thing, and that's what cybersquatting really means.<p>But domain speculation, like real estate speculation, is a perfectly legitimate activity. Where does one get the idea that all names of a certain category should belong to them even though they couldn't be bothered to register them?<p>(Speaking in general here, not to the original poster since he didn't express much of an opinion, other than to misuse the word cybersquatter)
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Subject: viewr.cn & viewr.com.cn
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:30:27 +0800
From: Thomas Lee <mybestnames@gmail.com>
To: alex@viewr.com
CC: info@viewr.com<p>viewr.cn & viewr.com.cn
Dear Sirs,<p>We have viewr.cn & viewr.com.cn for your purchase to expand China market which is to be No.1 market in the world.<p>Your interest? make offer pls.<p>Thanks<p>Regards,<p>Thomasa
When i got a business license a couple years ago, someone bought my company's .com domain mere days after i registered the trade name. The domain is absolutely useless to them, but they keep it in hope that ill pay them big time for it. not in their lifetime...