As for Thunayan/FMA, they’re their domains to do with as they please…and short of mind reading, none of us know how their sites do…or why they own any of the names they own.

Rick’s remarks are/were racist; with his apology for such the right thing to do.

Anybody from anywhere with money from any source(s) is entitled to buy and own (subject to TM laws an’ such) what ever domains they want.

Total coincidence I just went there. Anyone starting to believe me now?
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Elliot…..have you been noticing a big surge in criticism domainers, or even developers in many cases in the last six months? It really has gotten nasty lately. It is especially true on one word primo generics.

I have been speaking with some other domainers after noticing some irregularities in some of these posts on the domain blogs. Something has just been askew in the replies. Why is there so much fervent badmouthing and mischaracterization of domain owners and their efforts? Why was it worth several posts to Rick to say Future Media Architects is doing no good? Why waste that much energy saying his three page site sucks? Don’t you find it a litte suspect? Maybe he is just a snooty web designer that likes to look down his nose? Possibly….but I doubt it.

We think we have uncovered something after studying this for some time now. I noticed the irregularities, but a couple of other domainers adept at investigation uncovered some real dirt. I don’t want to go totally into the details of who is behind this since we are still studying them.

This is organized criticism that is going on. What do I mean? This is organized criticism by at least one law firm and public relation firm working in tandem to influence opinions with the public, with UDRP panelists, and lastly with the courtrooms. They aim to change the status quo and leverage our assets away from us for their clients who want our domains but don’t want to pay for them. They want to steal them by intimidation, threat, lawsuit, whatever…..it’s what they do. These guys are pros at this. They can get these domains away from us much easier (and at 1/10 the price or free) than the companies that want the domains can. These are two of the biggest players in the world…..in their respective industries…..legal and PR.

A big attack has been being planned for about five years. They are now launching the second part of the attack and are using “Astr0 Turfing” to force their agenda…..which is designed to foster an agreeable environment in which to pry domains away from domain owners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Now this guy Rick may or may not be involved in this. But this is what is going on. There are just too many folks now with these strange replies now posting. They don’t seem real in their negative criticism.

Many of “Rick’s” posts seemed designed to get you to “jump”…..like the Arab statement. They also seem designed to paint us as scum. He basically is painting your friend as some seedy, rich foreigner hiding in the deserts of Arabia using American domains to do no good. Rick even says that the original registration intention was bad even though it is being used for a donkey site. He cuts no slack for any circumstance in which the domain could be used. He still boo-hoos the guy. Is he trying to set the stage for a future lawsuit? Maybe he works for this PR firm or lawyer doing a favor for Viacom.

The ultimate desire of these guys is to denigrate us and paint us all in a negative light so as to open the UDRP process and courts to more amenable circumstances in which to “win”, really steal, domains.

These are organized crooks that play by the book…..but very dirty. If you saw all the shit we uncovered your heart would start beating faster……this is the real deal. If I was the only one that thought this I might think I was going crazy but these other domainers see it too.

How successful will they be? We don’t know. They have had a few setbacks here recently in influencing the environment. Some cases backfired on them in the UDRP process and the current did not flow the direction they wanted. However….they are determined…..have more money than Microsoft and are very powerful and politically connected.

Fair warning guys…..the crooks are coming.

Hopefully I can say more in the future. I don’t mean to talk in riddles but for now that is all I can say. I just wanted to give my fellow domainers and developers a heads-up on what is going down.
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