# Fuck you Nameboy! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 26, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015 "2009-01-26T04:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/21 "2009-01-27T14:11:11Z")
Cybersquatters suck. Your mom’s going to deserve everything she gets. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/22 "2009-01-27T14:38:40Z")
> [@EpicNonsense](#): > > Sapo, I’ve tried it all. She’s convinced their algorithm, or whatever, is like some magical machine process that cannot be wrong… their bullshit listed on the appraisal makes it sound so complex it’s mind-numbing to some people… Mind-numbing as in, they can’t comprehend it so they assume it’s wonderful. So start from the other end. Don’t convince her that the website is crap. Ask her what her plan is to make money from the websites she’s purchased. Ask her in her three months how many of her domain names she’s sold. And if she (shocker) hasn’t sold a single one to date, ask her to back off the purchasing while she focuses on making money. Tell her to try that out for a month and see where she is. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/23 "2009-01-27T15:00:24Z")
This is pretty fucking sad. Can she afford to blow 2 grand on this, or are we talking about her next six car payments? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/24 "2009-01-27T15:19:56Z")
Just tell her to register [Nameboysucks.com](http://Nameboysucks.com). Apparently it’s worth $2,421.25 and I’m pretty sure that will get some hits. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/25 "2009-01-27T15:20:17Z")
> [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](#): > > Cybersquatters suck. Your mom’s going to deserve everything she gets. I like being a hardass on the internet too, but this is pushing it. The lady clearly has no idea what she’s doing, and it’s not “cybersquatting” unless she’s deliberately targeting domains similar to ones that legitimate entities might need, like “[straightdoep.com](http://straightdoep.com)” or whatever. This is like saying if a dementia patient wanders off with a candy bar wrapper from the trash, thieves suck and she deserves everything she gets. She lacks the mentality, the intent, of a thief, and she’s also not taken anything of worth. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/26 "2009-01-27T17:53:21Z")
> [@Ensign\_Edison](#): > > I like being a hardass on the internet too, but this is pushing it. The lady clearly has no idea what she’s doing, and it’s not “cybersquatting” unless she’s deliberately targeting domains similar to ones that legitimate entities might need, like “[straightdoep.com](http://straightdoep.com)” or whatever. Precisely… She’s new to the internet world. At least she didn’t get any emails from Nigeria… it could be worse. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/27 "2009-01-27T18:06:42Z")
> [@Ensign\_Edison](#): > > I like being a hardass on the internet too, but this is pushing it. The lady clearly has no idea what she’s doing, and it’s not “cybersquatting” unless she’s deliberately targeting domains similar to ones that legitimate entities might need, like “[straightdoep.com](http://straightdoep.com)” or whatever. This is like saying if a dementia patient wanders off with a candy bar wrapper from the trash, thieves suck and she deserves everything she gets. She lacks the mentality, the intent, of a thief, and she’s also not taken anything of worth. I disagree. She is _trying_ to be a cybersquatter, or she wouldn’t be buying domains she thinks are in high demand with the intent of jacking up the prices later. She might be really bad at it, but that’s still her intention. ---
**Author:** ![hende](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/aca169/32.png) [@hende](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hende)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/28 "2009-01-28T01:22:01Z")
Well apparently [google.com](http://google.com) is worth $4008. Let me give Google a call and see if they will sell their domain for that amount. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/29 "2009-01-28T01:27:10Z")
> [@Ensign\_Edison](#): > > I like being a hardass on the internet too, but this is pushing it. The lady clearly has no idea what she’s doing, and it’s not “cybersquatting” unless she’s deliberately targeting domains similar to ones that legitimate entities might need, like “[straightdoep.com](http://straightdoep.com)” or whatever. This is like saying if a dementia patient wanders off with a candy bar wrapper from the trash, thieves suck and she deserves everything she gets. She lacks the mentality, the intent, of a thief, and she’s also not taken anything of worth. So you think her plan is to pick domains that are unlikely to be used, and thereby never make money off them? Interesting. Whether she’s doing it cleverly or not, her intent is very clear. She’s not a dementia patient scavenging bins (and probably wouldn’t appreciate the comparison) she’s a person who’s made a deliberate decision to try and tie up domain names with the intent of holding them to sell later for - as she sees it - thousands of dollars (according to the site’s ‘appraisal’ values). And that makes her a cybersquatter, whether she realises it or not. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/30 "2009-01-28T01:30:43Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Much like the guy three posts before you. 😉 Yes, except I can’t even get to the bit where I can type in nonsense and have it valued. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/31 "2009-01-28T01:48:56Z")
> [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](#): > > And that makes her a cybersquatter, **whether she realises it or not**. This is the key here, I think. It’s pretty obvious she doesn’t have the slightest idea how the internet works, much less the (admittedly pretty dense at times) thicket of law surrounding it. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/32 "2009-01-28T02:10:56Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > This is the key here, I think. It’s pretty obvious she doesn’t have the slightest idea how the internet works, much less the (admittedly pretty dense at times) thicket of law surrounding it. Yeah, but since she’s had it explained to her \*why \*and \*how \*the activity is inappropriate and inadvisable, I think at this point she’s given up the right to be considered an uninformed, innocent and accidental bystander and has officially began operations as a Fully Complicit Ass. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/33 "2009-01-28T02:21:13Z")
For kicks I tried it with a domain I own and use and for which I’ve been offered six figures in the past… $7634 I think I’ll pass, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/34 "2009-01-28T05:49:58Z")
> [@hende](#): > > Well apparently [google.com](http://google.com) is worth $4008. > > Let me give Google a call and see if they will sell their domain for that amount. > [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > For kicks I tried it with a domain I own and use and for which I’ve been offered six figures in the past… > > $7634 > > I think I’ll pass, thanks. Wow, can I hire you? You created a domain now worth more than Google! ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/35 "2009-01-28T06:40:38Z")
> [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](#): > > Yeah, but since she’s had it explained to her \*why \*and \*how \*the activity is inappropriate and inadvisable, I think at this point she’s given up the right to be considered an uninformed, innocent and accidental bystander and has officially began operations as a Fully Complicit Ass. Ya, I just don’t get it. I’ve tried multiple times but she doesn’t want to believe me, or anyone for that matter. I’ve explained every god damn detail and she just doesn’t want to take my advice. She’s been living a lie and it’s going to be damn near impossible to change her ways of thinking and it’s pissing me off because the more and more I try the more angered and frustrated she gets with me, thinking I am trying to derail some non-existent fortune. I thought that since I was her kid at least she’d believe me, but it seems in this day in age dollar signs run the world. Promise people a fortune and they’ll give you the world and even their bank account information. It’s pretty damn sad that people can’t function or be motivated anymore without the thoughts of money. Consider open source… If things weren’t so fucked up financially, people wouldn’t be doing shit for free, but they’re beginning to realize that people simply don’t want to work for shit anymore, and they want it handed to them. So their income is from advertisements and such, rather than sales, because they’d never thrive from them. Only big name companies would thrive even if their product was great. I’m a member of several forums and I often give people tips on certain areas such as html, design, and other things, and it’s gotten so bad people can’t even fucking say thank you anymore. They just expect shit. And that’s why the system that namboy uses is ever-growing. It gives you the impression that a fortune is easy to come by so it grabs you by the balls and doesn’t let go, unless of course you were educated on the matter prior, in which most people aren’t. And it’s FREE! Doesn’t get any better than that. Try imagining how many people fell victim to email scams and then think how long it took for people to actually start realizing it was a load of garbage. I’m sure my mom isn’t the only one experiencing this. It just sucks it caught her at a bad time. Why else would they be shoving religion down the throats of children? Cause it works. As for technology it’s quite the opposite. In this case the adults are more likely to fall victim to a scam like this because for some reason adults were under the impression technology wouldn’t be important to them (my step-dad still doesn’t know how to use a computer or a real cell phone, nor does my grandmother or other relatives) so they felt they didn’t have to be apart of the technological world. Now it’s too late, and most of them are only now realizing technology is in fact running the world, but they have been pushing it off for so long they are in way over their heads, and the longer they wait the more vulnerable they become. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/36 "2009-01-29T04:33:21Z")
> [@EpicNonsense](#): > > I’ve tried multiple times but she doesn’t want to believe me, or anyone for that matter. I’ve explained every god damn detail and she just doesn’t want to take my advice. I know your pain, seriously. I spend way too much time trying to convince my father that just because he reads something on the internet, it doesn’t make it true. And since he’s more stubborn than me, I usually end up just getting angry and giving up. I’m very glad he hasn’t discovered Nameboy, since I know he’d be exactly the kind of person who’d think that was a marvellous idea (for him, it’d be like a game - he likes auctions for the fun aspect) and would happily camp any and all domains he thought would pay off eventually. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/37 "2009-01-29T10:52:07Z")
> [@AllWalker](#): > > “go nameboy go!” The power of Christ compels you! > [@EpicNonsense](#): > > Ya, I just don’t get it. I’ve tried multiple times but she doesn’t want to believe me, or anyone for that matter. That is absolutely common. It is, in fact, the defining trait of someone who is about to be scammed for a lot of money. > [@](#): > > Consider open source… If things weren’t so fucked up financially, people wouldn’t be doing shit for free No. Open source has been going on since the 1950s: The first software was free to share. It has been a political movement in the software world since the 1980s, and it has gone by that name since the mid 1990s, some years before the dot-com bubble. The Internet was built on open source software. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/38 "2009-01-29T11:53:58Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > No. Open source has been going on since the 1950s: The first software was free to share. It has been a political movement in the software world since the 1980s, and it has gone by that name since the mid 1990s, some years before the dot-com bubble. The Internet was built on open source software. I wasn’t implying that open source was born yesterday rather than it’s been heavily expanding these past couple of years. It’s now gotten to a point where you can get nearly anything as open source and the product will stand firmly against another high dollar product, and not just something mediocre. It won’t be too long until these other companies fold because when you’re predecessor is handing out a competing product at no charge how are they to benefit… I hope you enjoy seeing advertisements 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/39 "2009-01-30T00:22:39Z")
**EpicNonsense** : In an open source world, you don’t earn money by charging secrecy rent on bits. You earn it by supporting your software and doing custom work to order. It’s really a more professional way of working, because it makes the programmer closer to an artisan than a short-order cook. The programmers who can’t adapt can make good money by learning how to be plumbers. Everyone will always need plumbers. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015/40 "2009-01-30T00:38:45Z")
This is such a transparent scam that I have trouble believing that its legal. Which might be an avenue you should pursue: have you considered contacting your attorney general’s office? They tend to get frowny at the idea of hucksters bilking the elderly out of thousands of dollars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-nameboy/483015.md?page=3)