On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 03:44:49PM +0000, Milton L Mueller ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > 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. Perhaps. And if so, I'm all for it. In fact, if I was running .sucks I'd make it a rule that x.sucks will never be sold to trademark x owner or company x at all, and others would forfeit their x.sucks domain if they don't badmouth x enough. :-) > 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. Agreed. -- Tapani Tarvainen