From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 14:07:00 MST
rhinoceros
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:02 PM
[rhinoceros]
On a remotely related note, I can see that domain-name squatting can
make money, providing value to the squatters, but can anyone explain how
this can be justified? What value does the squatter offer in return? My
closest guess is that it is a result of an abuse of the concept of
property which has found its way into the legislation. Any other
explanations?
[Blunderov] At the risk of being hideously simplistic, does the value
not derive from simple ownership of a scarce resource? 'Mail' is almost
indispensable in a domain name that intends to deal in e-mail, and there
are only 26 letters in the alphabet.
Is it possible that the very term 'e-mail' has imposed a sort of memetic
template that is obeyed subconsciously? Or are there more technical
reasons for the form (n)mail?
Anyway, taking all this into consideration along with 'money' and
'information' suggests to me that there is might be a class of abstract
objects that, in spite of their abstractness, are dealt with as if they
were in fact concrete. A hybrid meme?
Any takers?
Best Regards
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