domain name brokers
excepting the unmentionables, is there any other part of the web economy that is quite as scummy as the godaddy part?
i don't really know why but domain name registrars and brokers / squatters in particular always struck me as a bunch of seedy drug dealers, happy to take money from anyone for something they know you need - with the price set accordingly.
i dont mind paying for a domain name but i am of the mind that the domain name authority should be the one handing them out, and taking the (much lower, fixed price) cash rather than bob parsons.
on topic: im surprised nobody has thought of the children yet and condemned this sale as praying on the greif of families or something.
if i bought it i'd turn it into an ecommerce site where you swap one item for another with anyone else around the world.