RE: [ICANN-EU] FW: Domain Name Survey for At Large Member Nominees

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Hans Peter Dittler wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Hans Peter Dittler wrote:
> >>1.  Speculation and the Aftermarket Industry

[...]
> Good names are great for marketing, short names even better.
> I have no problem with inventing and even selling of names as a
> valuable service to others. It is for me like many other forms
> of marketing and advertisement business. Even the names of at least
> two of the companies I am working for (including BRAINTEC) were
> developed by marketing people or agencies who got paid for it.

So it is alright to pay marketing people to develop a name for you?
They aren't cheap.
 
> But I don't like blocking of other people or companies by 
> registering hundreds of names and putting a huge price-tag
> on them just in hope of a big profit.

But it is wrong to spend less on marketing (because it is not
necessary) and pay for a good name?

I am lost here. Why can marketing people make money for selling a name off
to the customers, while "speculators" cannot make money on good names they
thought of first?

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