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RE: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain

  • To: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain
  • From: "Karl E. Peters" <tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:04:43 -0700

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<div>Jeffrey and all,</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is hardly my job to defend GoDaddy or the 
private domain people, but I must, in the interest of fairness suggest the 
following supposition and see if that too meets with the same reaction here. 
(Keep in mind that I am opposed to private registrations of SLDs as much as 
TLDs.)</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Suppose "Mr. X" registers kumasi.com in 
anticipatin that the people of kumasi.org would eventually look into having it, 
as well. (as they actually did) Perhaps Mr. X wanted to position himself to 
make a profit from the unsuspecting kumasi.org when their interest surfaced, 
but did not want to be known as a bottom feeder and thus registered it as a 
private registration with the understanding that inquiries about its purchase 
would be presented to them. (Of course, this all could be a giant scheme by 
GoDaddy to hold and sell millions of high priced domains, but it does not have 
to&nbsp;be and may not be. There are millions of opportunists in the world that 
would be cometeting with them.)</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Let's accuse on facts and not on suppositions!!! 
This is an issue that warants investigation, but no one should be convicted 
before the investigation takes place.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>-Karl E. Peters&nbsp;</div>
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<div   >-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [ga] Kamusi.com 
Domain<BR>From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" &lt;jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&gt;<BR>Date: 
Fri, January 23, 2009 12:23 am<BR>To: "Karl E. Peters" 
&lt;tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&gt;, Tim Ruiz<BR>&lt;tim@xxxxxxxxxxx&gt;<BR>Cc: 
ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Peretti, Kimberly 
Kiefer"<BR>&lt;Kimberly.Peretti@xxxxxxxxx&gt;<BR><BR>Karl and all,<BR><BR>No 
raind here. It's as dry as a bone. &gt;:) It is VERY clear what<BR>GoDaddy is 
doing. It MAY not be illegal, but IS certainly not<BR>ethical, and in that vain 
as you say, bottom feeding. But perhaps<BR>you should make yourself aware of 
the law regading deceptive business<BR>practices before making a judgment on 
legality. I believe this at least<BR><BR>warrents a in depth investigation by 
DOJ. And I believe that eventually<BR><BR>such a proper investigation will be 
conducted by same... Better sooner<BR>than later, but eventually 
regardless...<BR><BR>I have no problem what so ever with private domains. I 
embrace them.<BR>I do have a problem with bulk domain name selling under the 
seeming<BR>guise<BR>of a privacy service that is not there to protect a Domain 
Name holder,<BR>as much as it is to do Domain Name speculation in perhaps 
a<BR>cybersquatting<BR>manner. And again, America, as well as most of the rest 
of the world,<BR>can no longer afford, nor should abide or allow for this sort 
of<BR>business<BR>practice. To put it another way, if Godaddy was an airline, 
and lost<BR>both<BR>engines, everyone without Godaddy's service with their 
prefered privacy<BR>provider, would be Rosa Parks...<BR><BR>"Karl E. Peters" 
wrote:<BR><BR>&gt; Not to rain on anyone's parade, but has anyone read their 
policies to<BR>&gt; see if they are allowed to bring cash offers to their 
Privacy clients<BR>&gt; as a part of the deal. Many, like someone who would 
bother to register<BR>&gt; kamusi.com may very well want to hide behind such a 
veil and wait for<BR>&gt; high profit opportunities brought them through these 
arrangements.<BR>&gt; Don't get me wrong, I believe this to be sad and a form 
of bottom<BR>&gt; fishing like the rest of you, but read the policy these 
people signed<BR>&gt; on to before making too many blind judgements about 
company ethics.<BR>&gt; One of the few things worse than doing wrong is to 
wrongly accuse<BR>&gt; someone of doing wrong and paint them unfairly. 
Personally, I don't<BR>&gt; even like the concept of private domains for the 
reasons above, and<BR>&gt; others, but it is not illegal, yet...<BR>&gt; -Karl 
E. Peters<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;<BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Spokesman for INEGroup 
LLA. - (Over 284k members/stakeholders strong!)<BR>"Obedience of the law is the 
greatest freedom" -<BR>Abraham Lincoln<BR>"YES WE CAN!" Barack ( Berry ) 
Obama<BR><BR>"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what 
is<BR>very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt<BR><BR>"If the 
probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;<BR>liability depends 
upon whether B is less than L multiplied by<BR>P: i.e., whether B is less than 
PL."<BR>United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 
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