Talk:Domain hijacking

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[edit] Legal hijacking is not theft

Much of this page is absolute nonsense. The term "domain hijacking" is never correctly used to refer to the registration of an unrenewed, expired and released domain. "Hijacking" is a highly emotive term and to use it in this manner - for an activity that in itself is in no way either illegal nor contrary to any established norms - is thoroughly misleading.

However, there is an activity properly known as "domain hijacking". It is effectively synonymous with what is termed "domain theft" in the article.

JWAM 18:21, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I was under the impression that, connotations of the word "Hijacking" or not, the act of a new party registering a domain seconds after it expires is considered "Domain hijacking." This article wreaks of biased writing. If I was morally shabby enough to run a business out of stealing other people's domains milliseconds after they expire, would I be kindly editing the Domain Hijacking page on Wikipedia in order to make myself appear in a positive light? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Domain_hijacking&direction=prev&oldid=49785331 That was the version that seems most accurate before 24.228.54.80 replaced a large amount of text with an "IT'S AWWWIGHT" comment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.83.179.28 (talk) 20:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Legal theft

This is currently kind of a stubby, stupid article. It has been taken over by people who think that legal theft is not theft. Fine. So, give legal theft another name, and let's have another article, that discusses this very real problem! (Probably more common than the illegal theft the article currently addresses.) Domain tasting seems to be very relevant.

Why would a Russian in Nevada take an expired low-traffic nonprofit domain, pay for a whole year, actually keep the domain, and copy over some of the old nonprofit content, not even putting up any ads? It seems like there must be some very bad motivation behind this, but what could it be?-69.87.203.184 11:57, 2 July 2007 (UTC)