Gigalaw's Doug Isenberg, in a CNet Op-Ed: "Today, cybersquatters have rebranded themselves as 'domainers.'..." I don't know if that's true, but the converse is certainly not true. The vast majority of "domainers" are not running afoul of the law, and the Isenberg piece does a significant injustice to bulk registrants everywhere by painting them as "cybersquatters" and denigrating the conferences and communities that support their legitimate and lawful interests in domain name catalogs.

Add: From Domain Name Wire, which notes that Isenberg is a WIPO UDRP panelist: "I’d hate to have a UDRP decision fall into his hands if he goes in with this bias...."

Double Add: Isenberg also decries Internet "'monetization' services--which quickly let domain name registrants turn otherwise unused, or parked, Web pages into money via affiliate links that often trade on the goodwill established by well-known brand owners--are finding a large and growing customer base of hungry and often shrewd domain name registrants." Isenberg might want to talk to Vint Cerf about this. His company runs a little service called "Google Ads," which is probably the most popular and effective "monetization" service used by "domainers."

How long until John Berryhill weighs in?