• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Squatters do this shit every day to regular people and small businesses, but they don’t have the money to convince a judge to hand over a domain.

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        2 hours ago

        I think Nintendo wanted to buy my domain ages ago, but pretended to be some little rando interested in a site.

        The MX server’s IP address was Nintendo address space and a game they soon announced had the same initials as my domain.

        Probably could have made some money, but also glad I didn’t sell.

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        21 hours ago

        I see nothing wrong with that. It predates steam and they aren’t attempting to extort large sums of money from anyone.

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        1 day ago

        I was more talking about the costs of the legal process itself. Justice is expensive, not everyone can afford it.