ZusCom
We are not holding anyone to ransome because we are not selling our domains ergo we are not cybersquatters. We are simply registering lots of names which have been cancelled, presumably because they were not wanted. This is legal and not so different from buying land, advertising space or a fast food restaurant in every town. I agree that what many people do with them (made for adsense pages) are polluting the world wide web. This is in fact down to Google's greed - they could stop this overnight by not classing domain parking as adsense for search thereby allowing advertisers to opt out, or by not supporting domain parking period. Yahoo ditto.
We do not ever beat the 'snapnames' companies to names so in theory prevent no-one from reregistering any domain using these services. If anyone thinks they can save $40 by snapping names up themselves they are dreaming. This has not been possible for 8 years.
If any one has proof their domain was lost through RegisterFly's antics we will return it at cost ($7 com / $1 info). Of course we reserve the right to question why you registered the name yourself ...
No-one has a right to any name in 99% of cases - for example - who should own polo.co.uk ?
VW (polo car) ?
Trebor (Polo Mints)
M&S (polo neck sweaters)
Lacoste (polo shirts)
Ascot Polo Club (polo game)
For the record we do not register any trademarks (or at least intentionally) and regularly give any charity related ones away for free. We are currently pointing many of our domains to the Madeleine McCann appeal page (little UK girl kidnapped in Portugal)
Regards,
Paul Walsh
ZusCom