Here's the very recent announcement from DomainState that I'm referring to:
With immediate effect we reserve the right to remove domains that are listed here that we consider - in our sole discretion - to have no legitimate reason for their registration other than to trade off the goodwill of a third party.
Nice to see this policy change as I've long argued that it is in the aftermarket/parking industry's best interest to clean up the appearance that there's support for true cybersquatting, for example DisnyChannel.com. (See DS comments by some gadfly calling himself "CrankyOldMan". :)
I'm seeing industry improvement all over the place: PPC companies shunning trademark domain traffic and rewarding generic traffic that converts, more targeted domain landing pages, the death of multiple pop-ups spawned by domain landing pages, the fact that "big industry" is buying entire domain portfolios for $millions a pop.
2005 is not 1999. Better business models. Better ways to monetarize traffic.
Of course, we have always had a policy against posting trademark treading domains for sale here, haven't we? :) Ummm, well, sorta, ya know, like implicitly or by implication or is that logical extension or something else meritorious . .
[edited by: Webwork at 9:30 pm (utc) on Oct. 20, 2006]
