I won’t name names, but its concealed purpose preys on the unknowing and potentially passionate disenfranchised for signing and the only real thing to come from it is that the graph or count of signatories will end up being presented in some intellectual property report or industry breifing.

This petition is an entirely obtuse concept on behalf of the petitioner and extremely illustrative of how education on the way the internet works for both the author and petition signers might benefit things far more for their user experiences.

There are so many folks out there that think domain parking is an evil blight, but if it were eliminated through policy from ICANN (which wouldn’t really happen, only because it is quite likely out of scope) the only thing accomplished would be to push all that advertising revenue to the search engines or browser developers and the user experience would remain the same.

Congratulations on the circular efforts chasing one’s tail to whomever set it up. Online advertising is happening on the internet and domain parking is part of that. A petition might be a feel good sugar medicine that lets folks have that moment of gratification, but honestly, online advertising is not going away, for better or worse.

One cannot unfart.

All that has really happened is they have given that website an opportunity to collect more usernames and email addresses and other demographic information so that they can get spammed.

Maybe they are more clever than given credit, but it seems like the petition is clearly directs people to the “yes” option.

-Jothan

It’s kind of ironic that a company that has been accused of spamming in the past should be the one to start a petition of this kind.

Michele