{"id":2800,"date":"2009-04-20T12:10:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2009-04-20T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:22:53","slug":"leeorg-domain-not-for-sale-i-wish-i-had-been-a-domain-squatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/leeorg-domain-not-for-sale-i-wish-i-had-been-a-domain-squatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee.org domain not for sale \/ I wish I had been a domain squatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>4-20-09 update:<\/strong> Hmm, in 4 years not a single person has gotten a lee.org forwarding address or email account. I&#8217;m not going to offer that any more. This &#8220;domain not for sale&#8221; page used to live off my website homepage. I was moved with the site reorganization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2-3-04 update:<\/strong> If you&#8217;d like a forwarding address at lee.org, write to   me. For $10 per year, I can rent you a receive-only &#8220;lee.org&#8221; email address. For   $50\/year, you can have a full webmail\/POP mail account with a lee.org email   address and 5 megabytes of POP mail space. I&#8217;m also thinking of offering web   space&#8230; buzz me if you&#8217;re interested. I might even change the homepage so it   shows off all lee.org sharers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12-12-02 update:<\/strong> I won&#8217;t sell you the domain, but I will rent out email  boxes on lee.org. I&#8217;ll rent out a receive-only POP\/forwarding mailbox to you at  a very reasonable rate. I plan on keeping lee.org forever so this could be the  best way for you to get a very easy to remember email address. Email me at Lee  at Lee dot oh are gee!<br \/>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I get a lot of requests by people asking if I&#8217;d be willing to part with this  domain name. I&#8217;ve grown quite attached to it. I got this domain before Internic  (now &#8220;Network Solutions&#8221;) was even charging for domain names. I&#8217;ve got  to say that when I got this domain, I realized that I might want to become a  &#8220;domain squatter&#8221; and gobble up a few thousand domains on the off  chance that someone would want to buy them from me in the future. Now (11\/1999)  I look back at the varied history of domain squatters and think that I did the  right thing in not doing that&#8230;. I think.There&#8217;s a lot of issues behind domain squatting.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It feels immoral because you are trying to create a scarcity where no    scarcity existed before. Just like DeBeers has done with diamonds (did you    know that diamonds are only slightly more &#8220;precicious&#8221; than saffire    except that DeBeers has total control over the world&#8217;s supply)<\/li>\n<li>It feels immoral because you&#8217;re then going to charge someone for something    they wouldn&#8217;t have had to pay for in the first place.<\/li>\n<li>The legal battles of domains vs trademarks is a sticky, icky one. I would    find my conscience on the trademark owners side.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But then again&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were buckets of money to be made.<\/li>\n<li>I remember hearing about some &#8220;big&#8221; domains selling for 100-500    thousand dollars. And it was worth it for the companies to spend that much.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s just business. (I&#8217;m not sure if that is a scary phrase in this context    or not<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that domain space is a very finite resource. There can be only one &#8220;lee.org&#8221;  on the planet. I used to own several domains (6 at one point) but that number   has dwindled. TJIC and I had &#8220;nitrousburningfunnycar.com&#8221;  for a long while. That was a gas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4-20-09 update: Hmm, in 4 years not a single person has gotten a lee.org forwarding address or email account. I&#8217;m not going to offer that any more. This &#8220;domain not for sale&#8221; page used to live off my website homepage. I was moved with the site reorganization. 2-3-04 update: If you&#8217;d like a forwarding address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}