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    #41
    Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
    You have no right to a particular domain name and if some enterprising chap is willing to take a punt then let them.
    I have a right to be protected from anti-competitive behavior and monolies - such right is upheld in real life but in cyberspace they are getting away with it.

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      #42
      I think Ferrari are operating an anti-competitive monopolistic business. No one else makes Ferraris and I can't afford any of their cars. I demand to be protected from such gouging.

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        #43
        Originally posted by AtW
        Nominet is a monopoly in the UK.

        The behavior of cybersquatting companies who buy lots of domains from registars is a classic example of anti-competitive behavior: restricting supply of goods or services and charging a lot more for small part of such supply sold: they do not add any value, a domain is an electronic thing that is not made any better by having bought it, so price hike from $10 to $500 or more is purely speculative.

        Let's just leave it at that.
        Honour and Money do not belong in the same purse

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          #44
          Originally posted by Emperor Dalek
          No one else makes Ferraris and I can't afford any of their cars.
          Cybersquatter don't make domain - a closer analogy would be if some Ferrari dealer bought all of them, destroyed 90% and hiked prices for remaining 10% by 100 times to make up for destroyed ones plus really big profit. This would be anti-competitive behavior.

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            #45
            Originally posted by AtW
            This would be anti-competitive behavior.
            Oh no it wouldn't.

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              #46
              ok, go then buy all supplies of food, destroy 90% of it and make profit on remaining, I am sure you will get a medal for that.

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                #47
                Originally posted by AtW
                ok, go then buy all supplies of food, destroy 90% of it and make profit on remaining, I am sure you will get a medal for that.
                They have not destroyed any of it. It is all up for sale. Using your food example. Birdseye buy up all the peas they want and then charge what they like at the supermarkets. You can still buy peas but they will not be the quality peas you wanted.
                I am not qualified to give the above advice!

                The original point and click interface by
                Smith and Wesson.

                Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
                  Birdseye buy up all the peas they want and then charge what they like at the supermarkets.
                  If Birdseye bought all peas in the UK and then tried to score big time by raising prices 100 times, then relevant authorities will kick their butt (or eye) so hard that they would not be able to walk (see).

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                    #49
                    Trading standards would be on their arse!
                    Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

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                      #50
                      It's amazing what you can find:

                      the domain squatter in person...

                      Angus Hanton



                      35 Giant Arches Road, London SE24 9HP

                      020 7737 0070

                      Happy happy libelous bollocks
                      Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

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