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Quote:Here's a bargain for a frustrated Duke football fan. For $50, you can own the website where the name says it all — FireTedRoof.com.

That's a steal, because similar sites calling for the dismissals of Bill Callahan at Nebraska or Sylvester Croom at Mississippi State are five times as expensive...

Gripe sessions formerly reserved for bars and barbershops now also take place anonymously in cyberspace, where, with a few keystrokes and a credit card, a disgruntled fan can set up a website and launch a grass roots campaign to have a coach canned.

And now, one mysterious fan is trying to cash in on fans' frustrations.

He obtained the rights to nearly 30 fire-the-coach Web pages over the years and under the Redshirted.com banner is selling them for up to $250 apiece...

full article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/20...htm?csp=34
Quote:a good legal business move or cybersquatting?

legal for the same reason paypalsucks.com is legal  Smile