Domain Hoarders

This Crap Ticks Me Off . . . people who accumulate domain names, use them to post one tid-bit of information, and then hoard them in cyberspace for years never allowing any one else to take advantage of that domain.

Sure, there are the typical cybergeeks (no offense to cybergeeks - I am one myself) who sit around and spend their savings on purchasing domain names like www.lebronjames.com or www.howardstern.com in order to cash in when these celebrities become famous. If these geeks have the money, the insight to purchase these domains in advance, and build their retirement based on someone else who has a ton of money, Amen.

I'm talking about people who have these light bulb ideas over a Heineken and want to share it with the world via the Internet. They decide to purchase a domain or what I call "kidnap" a free domain, stay up one night thinking of some genius posting, and never do anything with it ever again.

I want to thank all of you one-time-posting-domain-hoarders for hogging up the fashionable domains names for your Internet one hit wonders. Here's a thought: set free some of those domains you haven't used in years and let someone else have a stab at them. And if I see you sitting at the bar with yet another pondering glow about you, I'll buy you two Heinekens. One for releasing your unused domains and a second if you promise to make your next light bulb idea something you will continue to use.