Gah! Is there really nothing we can do about domain name squatters? I can’t think of an equitable solution to this, but it’s incredibly annoying to be developing a web application, come up with the perfect name, and find that some moron has been sitting on it for 3 years with a placeholder page.

I’m really starting to feel that anyone who has a placeholder page for longer than 1 year should be challenged. Paying some spam-king squatter $5k for a domain name is just not feasible, and we devs shouldn’t have to resort to awkward naming structures or alternative TLDs to avoid this kind of BS.

….

OK, I’m all better now.