The February
issue of the Russian version of Esquire magazine among the mass of other interesting things includes an auto-interview of the most successful and well-known Russian cybersquater Denis Gledenov. The story of Denis, now the owner of 16,000 domain names, among which even google.ru once visited, is shocking (many - unpleasant) with the sincere purity of the idea that capturing promising domain names makes runet better, stronger, more alive.
“A couple of times I was accused of saying that I was doing a bad thing - an unethical business. But if it were not for me, then many would never be able to acquire a good, interesting domain. Instead of me, it was registered by some stubborn person who does not have money for the development of the domain - who would benefit from this? Cybersquatters are credited with the development of the Runet. ”
After these words, the story that the squatter requires working at the computer for 15-20 hours every day, not to break away from the laptop even on vacation, simply cannot cause sympathy ... is it not?