I’m
on .sucks side on this one.
In
effect, the .sucks domain seems to be engaged in a
legitimate form of price discrimination between brand owners
who want to suppress critical expression about their brands
and people who actually want to use the domain for its
intended purpose.
Extortion
means that one is threatened with violence or some other
form of illegal harm if one doesn’t pay up. The idea that
paying a high fee to preempt the mere possibility that
someone might register and use a critical domain such as
brand.sucks is not extortion.
--MM