- The guy wasn't domain squatting at all.
- They weren't Wedgies.com (they were Wedgi.es)
- They didn't sidestep him at all. They negotiated fairly.
If you like domain stories, check out Klouts.. (Which I actually prefered to this story). I kind of felt mislead after reading this artciel (albeit it was an enjoyable story).
So let me get this straight: the government requires ankle tracking bracelets for parolees, outsources these bracelets to the private sector, and then requires the parolees themselves to pay the rental fees out of pocket. And since the parolees themselves have virtually no bargaining power, this is a privatization scenario where market forces are almost entirely absent.
Just brilliant.
"Oh, we shut you down because somebody we don't know wants to talk to you. Do you mind if we give him your current email address? By the way, what is your current email address?"
Seems it might be of service to several people to know who this provider is.
getting someone else's domain shut down though is unbelievably fuk'd up.. this alone turns me off of the site
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: WEDGIES.COM
Created on: 19-Feb-99
Expires on: 19-Feb-14
Last Updated on: 04-May-12That's basically what http://www.correlated.org does.
But I don't think they'll find that marketers are clamoring for this type of data. And I think Correlated does a good job of showing why.
although I guess thumb is targeted at everyone, wedgies more business/marketers