Nutjob Watch

I think much of my initial reaction to the petition to "Stop Domain Name Parking and Cybersquatting" has already been said in my Attack of the TechnoPinkos post of a couple weeks ago. This is a typical example of leftist angst stemming from the fact that people actually earn a living and gasp generate profits from monetizing domain names.

As somebody in the domain industry (we aren't a big domain parking player and as a registrar we have exactly 0% of the domainer market, and most people know how I feel about the aftermarket and how overheated it is), there are a few issues with this "petition" that I feel duty bound to point out.

It is with ever increasing bemusment I scan nutjob havens like GodlikeProductions and RumorMillNews and find the tempo of the hysteria has been palpably building lately (possibly because of the impending destruction of Earth by Planet X within the next 6 months)

When everything is a conspiracy and the shadowy cabal at the top controls all history, it comes as no surprise that the new London Olympic Games logo:



Spell's "ZION" to the gaggle of nuts in the tinfoil hats. All you have to do is "some slight rearrangement of symbols on the 2012 logo it spells out ZION!" (which is a real quote). I love that phrase "slight rearrangement". These BigConspiracy nutjobs have no problems shoehorning anything into a worldview where a bear can't crap in the woods unless a reptillian overlord in the shadows has planned it out.

Some slight rearrangement of the symbols also gets you ZZ Top, and if you don't move anything I think if it spells anything it's either ZOIN or ZOIZ or maybe ZIOZ. I think Jon Stewart nailed it when he said "it looks like a slot machine going down on an ATM".