Dabrowski - 9:52 am on Jun 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

ok, here's my 2p.

Sorry, but some of we Brits get annoyed when people in the US try to tell us how to spell English. ;)

Thanks for saying that. Also, "centre" and "colour". They're our words, US broke them.

But anyway.......

the domain name with "theatre" in it showed up as the first result in a Google search, but the content had nothing to do with theater, or theatre if you prefer

Can't they be reported to, and banned from Google for keyword spamming in this instance?

Presumably there would then have to be a time limit for someone to put a website on a domain after registration

I'm sure that the company in question would argue that a useless directory of all their other domains they've ICANNapped is useful content.

I saw a thing on the news a while ago, some dude had registered half a million domain names, and just made millions off click traffic.

Same as the £1m website, the one where he was selling off areas of the screen literally 1 pixel at a time? Companies are actually stupid enough to buy a 1 pixel advert! They respond buy saying 'we've had more hits' but I doubt very much they've had more sales.

You mean "possible", "perhaps", "maybe" future development? Personally I don't see the difference. I hold several domain names some of which I perceived to be valuable when I registered them

Me also. And in triplicate, when I register a domain for a future personal project, I usually register 3 or 4 similar ones to use as redirects or fake review sites, etc....

If you're not using the domain name as a way for your users to access your site easily (whether by http, email, etc.) then I think the original poster is right - it should be prohibited by law

It should be controlled, in the same way keyword spamming will get you kicked off Google.

How about -- when a site goes up, some ICANN bod gets notified, and he checks to see the site is relevant to the domain name. If the domain is not relevant - i.e. spamming for another purpose, they get kicked off the database and someone else can have the name.

[edited by: lawman at 10:46 am (utc) on June 26, 2007]
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