Talk:Domain drop catching

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Drop Catching not Domain Sniping[edit]

It is more commonly referred to as Drop Catching... not Domain Sniping... as a term to describe a person who catches dropped domain names..

Dropcatchers <-- What they are called

Drop Catching <-- Action

Drop Catch <-- The Industry IE: Drop Catch Service

This article is currently the subject of an educational assignment.

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Article name changed to domain drop catching to reflect previous talk comments. Adrianeu (talk) 08:00, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Drop catching in Cyber-Criminal Law[edit]

Although the article has been changed to reflect "Intellectual Property" (Civil Law/Business Law) infringements which sometimes occur in dubious drop-catching, the article lacks sufficient content regarding Criminal Law. The definition of cybercrime includes actions causing "wrongful loss" and or "wrongful gain". Such a loss may be caused at the point of the "drop", whereas the wrongful gain may be backend (by way of a commission or under-the-table deal) and the (unsuspecting?) winning bidder at auction who may then "gain" the wrongfully dropped domain. Wrongful loss or wrongful gain in this sense not limited to a tangible monetary sum, sometimes perhaps the domain itself. Indeed it is not dissimilar to the analogy given below;

A traveller selects a car on a website of an airport rentacar, pays by creditcard online, receives confirmation of payment from the bank, confirmation from the payment gateway, and confirmation from the rentacar company, then goes ahead and gets on the airline flight. While in the air, the rentacar staff have used the travellers purchase information to pay the same sum back to the travellers account, which cannot clear into the foreign account for a period of a week, unbeknownst to the traveller, and allocates the car to another customer at a higher rate. The traveller arrives at the airport rentacar with booking number and creditcard receipt, but the staff say the rental was refunded and the traveller cannot use the car.

in such a situation the higher rate to the second customer would be "wrongful gain", the "wrongful loss" would be the use of the car by the traveller, and the sum of the difference of the rates allocated to the second customer. The second customer also comes into "wrongful gain" of the use of the vehicle.

None of the abovementioned pertains to intellectual property law, however, it is clearly within the scope of Criminal Law. Thanks and happy editing! 207.228.171.212 (talk) 22:17, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has to deal with the facts as they are rather than hypotheticals. This is a general article covering the topic of Domain drop catching. It does not deal with the hypothetical situation of a bad actor in a registry, registrar or registrant's company. Jmccormac (talk) 23:18, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Of course wikipedia deals with facts, that is undisputed; DNS records are some of the most reliable and verifiable sources known to internet-man, and yes, of course cybercrimes are performed, hypothetically. This is merely an indication that the article needs work to broaden the legal speak from its current IP orientation to encapsulate other angles, in a more fair and balanced manner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.228.171.212 (talk) 00:58, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment[edit]

This article is the subject of an educational assignment at University of California, Berkeley supported by WikiProject Intellectual Property law and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2012 Q3 term. Further details are available on the course page.

The above message was substituted from {{WAP assignment}} by PrimeBOT (talk) on 16:17, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]