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by scooter53080 6635 days ago
I would like a way to blacklist domains that are being squatted. I’ve thought it might work to have a Firefox plugin to report and block these sites. If you could get a large enough community using it, the list would grow pretty quickly. You could maybe even have a script that would gray out any of those sites on Google. Would this be enough of a disincentive to squat?...if the domain was effectively "removed" from the Internet for those using the tool. If a domain was actually bought and contained real content, it could be removed from the blacklist...but the process to do so would have to be difficult enough to not negate the disincentive of the blacklist. Any other ideas on how to harm the value of a squatted domain enough to make squatting not worth while? (When I say squatting I also mean domains that are just parked and for sale. Technically I don’t think that is squatting, but it seems like that is being lumped in the conversation here...could be misunderstanding that though.)