My comments were in relation to what you said above about the smaller guys being the cause.

I did’nt say they were registrars but they do take a cut in the money from the sale of their “partner registered domains” when they are sold on their platforms, they do put TM names on their homepages and in their email drop lists which encourages some people to buy those same names….they don’t have to…its a choice they make.

While they may not be subject to the law (ie: the bill above) they are playing a part in why bills like this are made. We all do to some degree, big players and small, registrars, tasters, auction houses.

I don’t “want” to put the responsibility on anyone in particular – it is what it is, I’m not making anything up here

Please don’t take my post as any sort of attack on their service, it is not, but don’t just blame the little guys for all the trouble, that’s not true !

“”Pool is not little, Namejet is not little, Snapnames is not little and neither are all those registrars yet they all consistently promote and sell off previously tasted TM & Typo names to whoever willing to buy them”"

Wrong.

Pool, Namejet and Snapnames are not registrars and are not effected or subject to the bill.

All these service do is try to get expired domains that other people ask them to get.

So simply they are not subject the law.

You keep wanting to put the responsibility on those that are not directly effected by the law.

I’m glad I don’t live in Utah, I’m even more glad I have’nt invested hundreds of thousands in domains…things are going to hell in a hand basket pretty rapidly.

Looks like Corporate America is making moves to manipulate, control and steer the Internet round to thier exact way of thinking and domainers are in their firing line.

…maybe those news articles of some domainers making tens of millions of dollars per year has really p***** them off!

ref > “The trouble is being caused by the smaller guys and you want the bigger guys to pay for it all, may of which don’t even live in the US.”

Pool is not little, Namejet is not little, Snapnames is not little and neither are all those registrars yet they all consistantly promote and sell off previously tasted TM & Typo names to whoevers willing to buy them….they dangle them infront of everybodies eyes and hope they get a bidding war going….monkey see monkey do !

(I know you have contributed big bucks to ICA)
..I don’t think that its as simple as us little guys expect you “big rich guys” to pay for everything, the masses often don’t have the right skills and need leaders to lead by example and in a way that also represents them and gives them a voice, do that and more will support and follow suit….there’s safety in numbers, but only if the leaders value the followers.

At the moment it’s not happening…the domain industry is leaderless !

The former budget of the ICA was over $200K, maybe over $300K when it had an executive director. I’ve never been on the board to I have never been privy to the exact numbers.

In January at the TRAFFIC show while I was sitting in the RickLatona.com auction was the first time I learned that Mr. Corwin contract with the ICA ran out on December 31.

Several domainer have since sent in contributions but I don’t know what the present status of the Association is.

But the association missed the time to lobby against this bill which was only introduced in December just a couple of weeks before his contract ran out.

The big boys are contributing but many of these “big Boys” don’t live in the US so they aren’t going to go to jail.

Personally in case you missed it, MostWantedDomains.com was just named in a Harvard study as having one of the 25 lowest incident of typos, so we are fine as well.

The trouble is being caused by the smaller guys and you want the bigger guys to pay for it all, may of which don’t even live in the US.