I can’t believe it. This is akin to domain hijacking in my book. I can see how it would be useful. I routinely check domain availability for people without actually wanting to register the domain myself. I typically make my customer register it, I just check it for them.
This grace period is just another way to give stupid people domain names. The internet is already flooded with morons who think they can throw together a site in frontpage and expect huge traffic. Idiots!! If I go and search a domain name and decide 2 days later to register it and it’s taken I don’t get irritated at the person who registered it. If I really wanted it it then I should have bought it. We should not let people put domains on “lay away”. What’s to prevent me from searching for thousands of domain names just to irritate people? I would then hold them all in reserve for the 4 days so nobody could register it even though I had no intention of purchasing it.
It’s all about creativity…I think too highly of myself to copy someone’s domain name; bought, sold, rented, time-shared or on lay-a-way. Creativity is what the web is all about, not to irritate. but then again, some people just don’t have anything that resembles a life of their own. Let’s all reach out and help them, I don’t mind it because I stay Creative that way as well!
jacques
las vegas, nv
Comment by jacques — March 6, 2008 @ 5:29 AM