If you have attended any TRAFFIC conferences or Domainfest conferences you have probably have run into Alexander Schubert who was a self admitted domainer from 1997-2004.
Alexander was one of the first who went to ICANN and asked for what has become the new gTLD program to be opened when he was petitioning for a .Berlin TLD.
Fast forward a few years and Alexander is out of .Berlin, but heavily involved as one of the applicants for .Gay, DotGay LLC, which has a community application in for the extension.
In a Facebook post Alexander made it clear that domainers are not welcome in the .Gay space should DotGay, LLC get the TLD and went further to warn all other new gTLD operators to “not allow domainers invade their new TLD space”.
We of course have some comments below, but here is Alexanders quotes unedited:
I am a domainer since 1997. I have attended numerous domainer conferences and I know numerous domainers and I know “our” (the domainers) trade.
“Domainers” are one of the core reasons I engaged in new TLDs in 2004.
I do love Domainers.
They are good to party with.
They are clever guys.
I just do not want to see ANY SINGLE ONE of them near any of the TLDs that I will ever create.
To put it more clear: In my eyes one of the core reasons of the deep failure of all to date new TLD’s are DOMAINERS.
They are like grasshoppers on speed invading your little field of freshly planted domain-plants eating the entire country empty leaving NOTHING to “grow and show”.
I am no fan of the NRA or the 2nd amendment but were my TLD a land I would patrol it in person and if I saw a domainer coming near the only warning he would hear would be “krck – krck” and 1 second later he would never hear nothing any more.
As a gTLDer I have to say: “Only a dead domainer is a good domainer”.
Sorry to be so hard but really: Every single one domain that you lose to a domainer does harm your TLD a bit. That’s why we have put in a number of stops to make 100% sure that there will be zero domaining in our TLD.
And I STRONGLY encourage my fellow TLD operators: Don’t dream about “revenues” streaming in through the “domainer channel”.
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