Domainers Suck! Voodoo on you.

I hate domainers.  They're like the asshole of the Internet.  I really, really hate them.

Cybersquatters really; they're taking up all the best URLs and clogging up the World Wide Web with crap. 

Take my experience today for example:  So I've decided to create a new blog about phishing and post each phishing email I get for content so I need to find a really good website address, something that kind of fits my character and sense of humor.  So I start the usual search by typing the URL I really want, gonephishing.com, into my web browser hoping to get an error message indicating that the website does not exist and then I could go and register it, but HELL NO- I get one of those typical domainer web pages that has all of the "related searches" links that take you to a Google ad sense page where they hope I'll click on another link and Google or Yahoo will pay them a few cents for the click.

At least this site didn't create a zillion pop-up and pop-under ads and redirect my browser to a penis enlargement or Adult Friend Finder site. 

Domainers typcially rely upon "type in traffic," meaning that they are betting on Internet users to type the exact URL into their web browser in order to land upon the site. 

There is no question about it- some Domainers make A LOT of money but they have to own thousands of premium names or typos (hoping that you'll mis-type or mis-spell a popular website address) but damn... gonephishing.com???

Who'd just type that in, except for maybe me?  I wouldn't be so pissed off if the domain owner at least had the courtesy to put a price tag on it or indicate that the domain is for sale.

So I moved on and have found all of the following URLs are also taken too:

gone-phishing.com
deepseaphishing.com
phishing101.com
flyphishing.com
phishingemail.com
smellsphishy.com
smellslikephish.com
somethingphishy.com
gophish.com
bigphish.com

I could go on and on but it appears useless...

So what's the f'n point of registering gonephishing.com if the owner couldn't hope for even a decent amount of type-in traffic and the domain is apparently not for sale?

Yes, Dear Reader, I'm quite sure that the point is simply to piss El Scott Harrell off and the owner of gonephishing.com, Gregg Ostrick of GNO, Inc. of Birmingham, AL has done just that today. 

Hence today's well-deserved voodoo hex of the moment on Mr. Ostrick, specifically, and other domainers, in general, who own URLs that I have wanted in the past or may want in the future.

voodoo.  vooDOO.  VOODOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Voodoo on you Gregg Ostrick for being a domainer.  Voodoo on you too domainers for registering millions of domain names and posting infinite amounts of useless garbage on web, all so you can make 2 or 3 cents from some moron who takes the bait and clicks on a Google ad sense link.

This search has left me hexausted so I've finally settled on SmellsPhishyToMe.com.  Check it out.

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Comments

[Bionic Beauty]

Mr. Gregg Ostrick has my domain too and won't give it up and all his darn contact info is bad. ugh.

I feel your pain. :(

[Breezy]

You know, my boyfriend is sort of a domainer...but he does not suck like the majority of them...he actually has a plan for every single domain he owns and intends to develop them into functioning websites beyond the scum and bullshit parked pages of the internet....but yeah...we do keep up with the domaining industry... so i hear what you are sayin....i actually did a google search for "domainers suck"...thats how i got here and i laughed through your entire post....thanks :)