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Squatters do this shit every day to regular people and small businesses, but they don't have the money to convince a judge to hand over a domain.
Hey it's just fair, and the judge has a new sports car suddenly and or a yacht.
I was more talking about the costs of the legal process itself. Justice is expensive, not everyone can afford it.
A squatter is why Valve used steampowered.com instead of steam.com. The owner of steam.com (who has owned the domain since the early 90s!) has consistently refused to sell to anyone, and has never stated a specific reason why.
I see nothing wrong with that. It predates steam and they aren't attempting to extort large sums of money from anyone.
I think Nintendo wanted to buy my domain ages ago, but pretended to be some little rando interested in a site.
The MX server's IP address was Nintendo address space and a game they soon announced had the same initials as my domain.
Probably could have made some money, but also glad I didn't sell.