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Username: For The People
Date/Time: Wed, October 18, 2000 at 8:12 AM GMT
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Subject: Complaining over what?!!!!!!

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<< but if I notice that this person has done this repeatedly, well I smell a rat.  you know, I heard about this guy that registered this really high profile domain name and he is getting $40,000 every month to just re-direct it to GoTo.com's search engine   >>

1. If the word is a generic, there is no Intellectual Property abuse.

2. If the firm is paying $40,000 a month, perhaps their profits are $1,000,000.

3. No one is demanding that they pay ANYTHING. They choose to lease.

4. Where else is a lease or rental agreement considered, as you put it, an "audacity?"

5. If he is collecting money to direct to GoTo.com, I imagine he is in an affiliate program where each visitor directed is paid for by the sponsor. It is perfectly agreed upon. It is a system of advertising, for lack of a better comparision, and it is mathematical.

In the real world sometimes people get paid according to how many referrals they provide an agency.

6. I don't think ANYONE makes $40,000 for redirects. And if they do, you can expect the profits for the one paying $40,000 are stupendous.

Now.....WHAT is your complaint?
  
     


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