Ah come on, it's like having having personalised plates on your car...

Do I have personalised plates on my car ? Of course not, but if I waited a day, I could have got BGPxxx (instead of BGNxxx) then I would have had personalised number plates at no extra cost...

Seriously, domain names now have a huge slice of action in the advertising industry, more and more business are branding themselves with their domain name.

At the end of the day, you just have to honestly ask yourself, "Why did we all want .geek.nz ?..."

-----Original Message----- From: crb6-forwarding Sent: Monday, 8 September 2003 14:26 To: 'wlug' Subject: [wlug] Domain squatting (was re: .geek.nz - last day to vote)

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good thing it got brought in :)

http://www.domainname.geek.nz

I don't know about you, but I really hate it when domain names are treated like goods to be bought to speculate on. Especially for those 'metasearch sites' that exist on domain names that people are likely to visit.

http://www.bootdisks.com/ is today's example of this. You really meant to visit 'bootdisk.com'.

I'd really hope that the people who run domainname.geek.nz are not encouraging this kind of practise, and that all the .geek.nz domains that were bought are going to go to good use, not be sold off at a profit to someone who really wanted it but wasn't quick enough.

Craig

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