Years ago I registered AdWordsBlog.com and AdSenseBlog.com & then pinged a Google engineer so they could transfer them in. Its the polite thing to do. I did the same thing with SethGodin.net. If you see some stuff like that out there then why not try to help people out who have spent millions of Dollars building up their brands.
The opposite of the above, to register the domain names & then to try to cash in on someone else's branding efforts is a lower rung strategy.
For a person like Jason to cybersquat, and then compare his auto-generated for profit websites to sucks sites protected by free speech laws...it really doesn't sit very well.
I think you're once again trying to spam Hacker News with your own personal vendetta against me Aaron.
Most brands love when folks make fan sites or communities.
You're being intellectually dishonest here, using the term squatting when in fact that's not what we're doing. Take a look at Internet Brands and their forums for automotive:
They provide independent forums, with trademarks in the domains, for almost every car brand. These forums are high-quality and valuable.
If someone wants to make CalacanisSucks.com, CalacanisTalk.com and CalacanisQuestions.com I'm fine with it. Go ahead... talk about me all day long.
I mean, you're doing that anyone Aaron.
Seriously, you are a link baiting machine Aaron. However, don't you think it's a little sad that the most attention you've ever gotten in your life is when you're attacking me.
The folks on HackerNews are sick of Calacanis-Baiting... give it a rest please. I hate seeing my name on HackerNews.... in fact, can someone create a Chrome Extension that removes all posts that are by aaronwall and mention mahalo/calacanis?
I can't speak for anyone else, but if you took "The folks on HackerNews are sick of Calacanis-Baiting" and removed "-Baiting" from the end that would be pretty accurate.
google-questions.com/tip_guidelines
how timely is this google webmaster video?
youtube.com/watch?v=RlNPRonDxuU#t=2m57s
the key part about domains google seizes starts at 2:57