I Got Milk.com

Good for him.<p>milk.com was registered back in July 94, same month amazon was created. I suspect that many people have attempted to get control over it via naferious means in the past, however I also get the feeling the value of domain names has decreased since the early 00s -- how many normal people still type in domain names, rather than typing in &quot;milk&quot; and clicking the first result.

Way to really milk ownership of the domain.

Check Dan&#x27;s responses to emails he received over the years. Hilarious!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;milk.com&#x2F;experiments&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;milk.com&#x2F;experiments&#x2F;</a>

Did anyone ever come up with a workable method of preventing this kind of rent seeking that plagues domain names?<p>The best scalable and impartial methods that I’ve seen mentioned were high renewal prices and limits on the number of domains one could own, but I get the feeling neither one would work when there is even a remote chance of extracting &gt;$10M in the end.<p>Given the current system it’s hard to blame him either — I don’t know whether I would find the altruism to let such a domain expire.

Domain name registration related shenanigans is so weird to me.<p>Lately I&#x27;ve been getting mail from various folks notifying me that the `.com` equivalent of one of my `.net` domains is going to be available. It&#x27;s weird to me that it would be worth doing, but I&#x27;m assuming they&#x27;re making money out of it.

This gets posted every few months. Every time I wonder how it&#x27;s not been taken away for squatting. I wonder if (or rather how often) he&#x27;s had to go to court.<p>Nissan.com has been the target of a few attacks if I recall correctly and is arguably less valuable and much more defensible (since the person who owns it is actually called Nissan).

Why is this being up voted ?