Recent content by rlm

Yep, sounds like another moron that thinks he can outsmart us.

Yep.

BTW, as I was re-reading some of this, something didn't look right, and then it hit me, its Zak, not Zac.... Apparently too late to edit it and fix it.

That's a good question. It would be nice to have a Canadian specific guy, but Zac seemed to think it didn't matter much since CDRP and UDRP are similar enough, so in theory that means just go with any of the usual suspects in domain law, even if they're international. But I like having CDRP...

Haha, true enough, that at least has a chance for turning into a sale.

He clearly fit in this category: And yeah, I don't spend money on a lawyer with nut jobs. They usually take care of themselves because they're all bark and no bite. They don't want to waste the money either, and if they actually start to research it enough to file a dispute, they'll probably...

These can come up with any generic domain, the more domains you have, and the more popular the terms are, the more of these you'll encounter. They tend to come in 3 varieties: 1. A naive person (or sometimes just a plain nutjob) who just registered their first corporation or trademark, but has...

Furthermore, registrars have been auctioning off expired domain names for decades. It's a baked-in perk to registrars. I'd rather see this continue to happen then have it taken away and then they just jack up renewal rates to make up for it. What I don't necessarily agree with is their...

Yeah, they've been around a long time.

This week a guy wanted a good LLL.ca that I own and decided to register 3 seemingly unrelated domain names (and not LLLs) just minutes before emailing me, and then offered those 3 domains as a fair trade. Are people really that stupid?? I had one today where a company is apparently buying a...

Based on the slightly tardy response by Dynadot, I believe it was 100% fair (assuming that it was presented the same way in the first contact to Rick after the auction). The next highest bidder can either accept the domain at their highest bid, or, take the risk of restarting the auction at the...

Yes, some much more so than others. There are literally THOUSANDS of .CA domain names, just with YYC in the name. And that's just one city.

True, if the bidder is willing to pay it, of course that should be their right too. I guess it boils down to how far the fraudulent bidder ran it up and whether the 2nd bidder is OK with that.

Yeah, that's totally unacceptable. What they should do is remove the fraudulent bidders bids, remove all of the 2nd highest bidder's bids where he was only bidding against himself, and then restart the auction. Basically rewind it to the last non-fraud affected bid. It shouldn't just be...

Absolutely. I believe that the generic SLDs are always going to be the most valuable, stable and liquid domains within any given TLD. But when you start comparing TLDs, there are always going to be the established and clear-cut top choices (such as the generic .com or the .ca within Canada)...