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The interviewee failed to really distinguish between the parking of generic domain names (i.e. non-trademarked terms, e.g. like contests.com which is parked by Yahoo or Kids.com which is parked by CNET) compared with TM-squatting. It would be more valuable to his audience if he did, as it's fairly obvious to most people, and especially to those who've studied the legal decisions like UDRPs or case law, that for generic terms the registrant can do nearly anything that they want with them.

The interviewee's definition of "domainers" focused only on the gray or black segments of the market, compared with the white segments which are clearly legitimate. Indeed companies like Marchex are traded on the NASDAQ (stock symbol: MCHX) and are for the most part focused on generic type-in domains (e.g. Motherboard.com) and shouldn't be lumped in with the bad elements that the interview focused on. Measuring the size of the bad elements compared to the good elements would be a useful area of academic research.