More grist for the mill -- why and how domaining hurts small business and entrepreneurs, and how it extracts value rather than adds: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210210-now-we-know-why-its-hard-to-get-a-com/

All you domain speculators who fancy yourselves marketing experts and are camped out in NARALO because, I would guess,  no other constituency will have you .... your turn. I see that some have already posted lame rebuttals on CircleID, read them and have a chuckle. (It's still noteworthy that nobody I know in ICANN-land defends the practice except those with direct financial interest in it.)

(And thank you to the kind NARALO member who found the article, figuring that I might have more fun posting it here than they would. You're probably right.)

Disclosure: I have never accepted money from AT&T or any other telco or ISP for that matter. My shitty mobile provider won't even give me a decent discount, but the others are no better. I did win a T-shirt a few years ago from SiriusXM, does that count?

Cheers,

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada

@evanleibovitch / @el56

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