Just want to make it clear, Domain investors who bought non-trademark names such as generic names ( eg. coffee.com ) are NOT domain squatters.

But domainers who bought “trademark names” ( eg. BuyCocaCola.com ) are the domain squatters.

Hope this will clear the definition of domain squatters.

So, Juan, would you like to help Mr. Le Meur understand the difference?

He insulted your business and your industry and you just smiled… then wrote a blog post deflected the issue.

There are three options -

1.) Pay for the best option – .COM (if for sale).
2.) Try to use UDRP to steal a domain.
3.) Settle for a much worse secondary option.

They have tried #2, and when they didn’t work now they are onto #3.

I guess there is a 4th option – invent a time machine.

Getting there first does matter. Not just with domains, with virtually anything.

You can’t stumble unto the domain 25 years after .COM was released and just expect a great domain to be handed to you.

Brad

Hey “Domainsville” yeah I don’t deny having tried to get LeWeb.com and I agree it doesn’t seem that I did it the best possible way and I’m happy to dicuss and learn.

Where we will, however, never agree, is that it’s “right” that an empty page with google ads on it can squat for life a domain used by a brand like ours for good reasons. I get the “I got it first” part and understand it, but I think it’s a real shame and frankly, a pain for the whole industry.
No question some people make a business out of it, but it’s a pain.

Will be interesting to see now:
1) which upcoming domain conferences accept .co as a sponsor (to sell to ‘squatters’??)
2) .co renewals and how many will concede ‘they’re a squatter’, and give more of their ‘over priced’ renewal money to the one who just insinuated such.

Bet Calle’s favorite quote is from PT Barnum.

At 1:37 in the video he says that leweb.com “has been taken since before we started leweb” and it is being used by the most famous domain squatter of Japan.

Boo Hoo.

You started your brand and now you are pissed because someone else registered the .com before you? What an ass.

He says he has been trying to buy it but he “can’t get it back”.

Get it back? Screw you Loic. How are you entitled to leweb.com?

Juan goes on to say that he is proud that .co is more expensive than .com because it is better and deters squatting?

Greed doesn’t have anything to do with it, Juan?

I was curious to know where this video was first posted. It was a you tube post by Loïc Le Meur
 here http://www.youtube.com/user/loiclemeur .

He has a video series called Build Your Own Brand which he runs from buildyourownbrand.tv NOT .com.

Maybe he can UDRP that one too.

What an idiot.

If we are squatters that the .co registry is a bunch of snake oil sales people because they KNOW what happened at Overstock.com and O.co with a 61% traffic loss because of confusion if I remember correctly.

This video is a window how some that take domainers money really feel about domainers and the domain industry. I am THRILLED it is on youtube!

Juan, I think you stepped in shit on that one. Funny huh??? Squatters??

.Net to .Co is jumping from the Kettle to the Fire.
But the 3rd is a charm.
Congrats to the guy that owns LeWeb.com.
Traffic will be going up and someday these .net/.co guys might even figure it out.

Hint: The dotcom version is FREE when you factor in lost traffic and the lost business that happens day after day, month after month, year after year. Companies like this are afraid to do the math and afraid to ask SIMPLE “What if” questions.

This won’t be another Overstock moment because they are coming from a .net.

As for the video, every domainer should watch it.