I am not sure if I am imagining that I read this years ago... but I seem to recall a "new" Cyber Squating law where a registered name HAD to put to real use within a certain period of time, otherwise the owner would be considered a Cyber Squater.
Is this true? Because I've found nothing about this.
The reason I am asking is that I am setting up a business which I hope to be the next YouTube or eBay (wishful thinking yes, but it is an idea no one has thought of)... The problem is the name! History has proven that the name has to be easy, memorable.... and ideally 2 - 3 Syllables max.
I've come up with a dozen names and ran them through a panel of consumers.... BUT every name that I/we had is chosen already registered. It wouldn't be an issue if these names actually had websites but many of them are either, "Server not found", a dummy page pointing to something else, "watch for website soon."
Looking at each (of the 17 names) registration, in EVERY case, these websites were registered more than several years ago (some more than 10 years ago), the Internet Archive (
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php - great resource BTW) lists NO history for ever having content.
Several actually state they are for sale.... but it's a matter of principle, I am not feeding someone's unethical opportunism.
My next step is to come up with interesting sounding letter combinations rather than word combos... hopefully my second round with find a winner. But if anyone can suggest a successful way of getting control of one of the great names we already have.... I thank you in advance.
Any thoughts? I am sure I am not the only one that has run into this problem! Can ICANN (
http://www.icann.org/) help?
BTW, there is a faint ray of hope.... one of the names finally expires next month... hopefully the "owner" has forgotten about this one. The dang name was registered more than 10 YEARS AGO and NEVER used.
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