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September 29th, 2006 by Cedric

OpenDomain is in the news!

on 30 Sep 2006 at 11:47 pm Duncan

Good job man! Good job.
on 30 Sep 2006 at 11:53 pm Kevin

Hmmm, I asked for a domain a while ago, but got no response….

Anyway, congrats!
on 11 Oct 2006 at 10:57 am IDNin.com

The Press Release uses the wrong language, painting with a broad stroke those who invest in generic domains, as well as squatter.

Cybersquatters are those who, in a practice now made illegal I may add, register domains that are close to or equivalent of trade marks of companies, and then attempt to profit from the good will of the trademark.

Domain investors and speculators are those who buy and sell generic domains, which are a publicly and privately traded commodity.

For you to label all domainers as squatters is disingenuous, and for someone who should know better.

In a sense, you are piggybacking on a valuable industry with purpose based marketing of your do-good generosity in sharing domains with the open source community. Which is fine. You get to feel generous and become famous, while the community benefits.

At the same time, please don’t call the very people who made the commodity that you can now generously donate to others bad names.
on 14 May 2007 at 9:29 am Hollis Waite

Sounds like great PR but this article is also a bit unclear. Seems to imply that only open source projects are eligible for domain names. From what I can gather from your web site, this is not the case.