Article discusses cybersquatter who calls himself a domainer.
One of the top stories on CNN.com today is about a self-proclaimed “domainer”.
Unfortunately, that domainer is a cybersquatter, so the article doesn’t paint domainers in a positive light.
The article is about Taikwok Yung. I’ve written about Yung before, when he registered domains related to Bank of America and Merrill Lynch when they planned their merger.
Back then I took issue with him calling himself a domainer, since he was clearly cybersquatting.
The CNN article is about a lawsuit between Yung and Donald Trump over four domain names. Yung lost a UDRP for the domains and then sued Trump in a case he couldn’t win.
The article mentions that Yung describes himself as a “domainer”. It also talks about domain parking.
Since he describes himself as a domainer, the general public that reads this article will now think domainer means cybersquatter.
Andrew
For a lot of the general public there is no clear difference between “domainers” and “cybersquatters” already, so this isn’t going to change anything.
Regards
Michele
I smell a conspiracy here
All we can do is make it clear that this guy is NOT a domainer and he IS a cybersquatter and deserves the $400k loss he will eventually have to pay.
The far majority of comments, however, are spent dissing Trump and ignoring the cybersquatting issue.
That is until the one from Dave Zan.
.lol
While it’s not the best way to use a domain I thought “gripe” sites were legal as long as they are not selling trademarked products. Most companies defensively buy the companyname”sucks”.com site to protect from this type of action.
@ChuckWagen – hehe, like I said, can’t be helped there that many people obviously hate Mr. Trump for whatever reason. No point arguing with those whose minds were (obviously) dead-set.
I remember reading that Trump threatened to sue a newspaper for calling him a millionaire, instead of a billionaire.
And by the way, look up who owns or until recently owned NormanSchwarzkoft.com I may have misspelled it.
deleted – fake email and spam
Wonder who will win the case this time. Anyone know the results of the case of the guy who owned Wiiu.com ? Really would like to know the outcome of the lawsuit there or did they just buy it off the owner?