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Originally Posted by rcentros
By the way, I agree with you about domain trolls. I feel the same about them as I do about patent trolls.
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Who decides that? Who decides who is a troll and who isn't? If someone buys 10 domain names, are they a "domain name troll"? I have several, for websites, businesses, etc., that I considered, here or there. One of them, for whatever reason, is now worth a LOT more than it was when I bought it. Does that make me a "domain name troll"? I'm the one that spent the money, created the name at the time, paid for it all these years. If I resell it now, am I under some moral social obligation to donate the "profit" to charity? So that, god forbid, I'm not considered a TROLL?
Does "only" 10 mean that I'm not a domain name troll? What about 100? What about 1,000?
This reminds me of a discussion I had with a male business colleague, in the mid-80's--at the time, an older (to me) gentleman, in his mid-50's, who was talking about some woman he was dating and he referred to her as
"that sort of woman." (He was talking about sexual activity.)
I asked him, "how many men makes
THAT sort of woman? 2? 5? 7? Is
seven the magic slut number?"
So...how many domains, exactly, makes a person or business or entity a troll?
If Fred buys older cars, stacks them in his garage, and waits for them to become collectibles, is he a used-car troll?
Why is the buying and selling of domains any different from doing so with any
other commodity?
Hitch