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Comment In the domain owners' defense... (Score 1) 800

...they may not necessarily be a cybersquatter (at least, not intentionally).

I own a couple dozen domains that used to belong to clients or ex-clients of mine. In some cases, they went out of business and failed to pay for the domain renewals, so I decided to transfer them over to myself; in other cases, they changed their minds about the name of their business and decided not to hold on to the other domains.

So, I now have about 2 dozen of these domains under my control; since I have no use for them, where's the harm in asking a reasonable price (anywhere from $50-$100) for them?

Finally, in one case, the client went out of business *and* screwed me out of a good $1,000 in development payments, so trying to recoup some of that with a domain that I now legally own seems reasonable.

Not saying this is the case here, just noting that it may be a similar situation.

Comment Re:Okay... let me get this straight... (Score 5, Insightful) 398

I don't know of a single Mac user or vendor who has ever claimed that OS X is *COMPLETELY* invulnerable to viruses/etc, only that there hasn't been a demonstrable, malicious, in-the-wild true OS X virus released YET, which is true.

Major difference. In fact, every Mac user I know expects a "true" virus or two to show up for OS X sooner or later, but what of it? So the ratio will go from a bazillion to zero to a bazillion to one or two.

Apple has roughly a 2.5% worldwide market share--wake me when they have anywhere close to 2.5% as many viruses as Windows and I'll start being overly concerned.

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