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by morris 6770 days ago
As the author pointed out, the domain was registered five days after his site launched. The domain was registered in bad faith. The owner is now soliciting the author for an offer on the domain name. According to Wikipedia, cybersquatting is 'registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.'
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Agreed. Whats being missed here is this: Registering a domain you think will be profitable in the future : enterprising.

Registering a variation of a domain that someone else just registered because you think you might be able to extort some $ out of them : rotten. No cookie for you.