Posted on Aug 23rd, 2008.
Categorised as random, new media, the world, words.
While reading this post on Sargasso (Dutch) on domain squatting I realised that the term domain squatting is actually completely wrong. House squatters perform direct action against people who, in times of scarcity, own (or: legally occupy) real estate without using it for its real purpose (living or hosting a business), but instead just speculate financially with it. In the online equavalent, the domain squatters are just doing the opposite: they are the one occupying a wanted domain, not for its real purpose, but just for financial speculation. Complete opposites. Kind of funny.
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