{"id":2354,"date":"2012-05-11T12:02:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2012-05-11T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:09:15","slug":"oh-to-be-a-cybersquatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/oh-to-be-a-cybersquatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, to be a cybersquatter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fridays<\/strong> are the best days of the week to stretch and ponder about recent events and arguments. They are also probably the worst days to take things seriously; with the weekend ahead of us, domain investors can afford to squeeze some <strong>humor<\/strong> into serious matters about domains. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliotsblog.com\/video-why-leweb-moved-to-co-9686\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>cybersquatter<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; references in the seemingly light-hearted discussion between the .CO CEO and the LeWeb CEO, reminded me how much I miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chefpatrick.com\/domain-name-news-episode-42\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chef Patrick&#8217;s couch videos<\/strong><\/a>, with buxom Model Mayhem cuties. The domain industry has been taking itself far too seriously and that&#8217;s why at some point I started writing for <a href=\"http:\/\/DomainGang.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DomainGang.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, nobody wants to be called a cybersquatter, <strong>when they aren&#8217;t.<\/strong> But those that do perform the <strong>cybersquatting pirouette<\/strong> on a daily basis, have little reason to scream &#8216;<em>murder<\/em>&#8216;. In other words, the term &#8216;cybersquatter&#8217; still applies to those that do just that, whether they admit it or not. That&#8217;s why <strong>domain investing<\/strong> still carries a stigma in online dictionaries and Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>But fret not.<\/p>\n<p>The compound word, after all, contains the beautifully crafted &#8216;<em>cyber<\/em>&#8216; part that author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Gibson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>William Gibson<\/strong><\/a> brought to millions of his fans through <em>cyberpunk <\/em>novels<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Domain investors can thus benefit a lot from reading science fiction stories, and that&#8217;s yet another reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Patrick Ruddell.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>TGIF!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fridays are the best days of the week to stretch and ponder about recent events and arguments. 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