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by schmoe 6972 days ago
What a great example of Hannah Arendt's "the banality of evil". Since the domain market is unregulated why not take advantage of that for your own personal gain, regardless of who it harms? After all everyone else is too right? Buy up all the names you can and fill them with worthless advertising instead of useful content. How disgusting!
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How disgusting, indeed?

It's for sale, nobody owns it, and it's eventually going to be controlled by whoever can use it best. I suspect that you aren't hurting for content, given that there's already more than anyone could possibly absorb.

The alternative is how Australia's commercial domain names are issued. You must have a registered business name in Australia before you can get mycompany.com.au. I'd rather the easy simple .com method any day.
Also what's with the devaluing of the word evil lately? We should save evil for the Holocaust, the Gulag's etc. Not waste it on business methods that are just low/tacky.