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Originally Posted by WCGRider
We own a wide variety of domain names that were available in 2016 that relate to upswing or potentially valuable future poker domains, such as RunItOncePoker.com.
Purchasing relevant business domains that will increase in value is a standard practice among internet businesses. It is also standard to purchase domains such as DownswingPoker.com that could easily become memes or jokes.
We could have had it refer to something like Upswing but instead we decided to go for some lol's.
The reason's to buy your own related domain's like downswing.com or upswingsucksapeballs.com are of course trivial and good thing to do.
However buying competing domain's sounds like a sign of weakness and in this instance it's a douce move. Since RIO is trying to launch a actual poker site that is inspired from the bad direction pokerstars has decided to take in recent year's, something you have talked a lot about as well.
It's something that could benefit the entire poker community, so why get in their way ? You say you want your customer's to have the best study material and you reaaaaally care about your customers. But you don't care about the actual environment your customers deal with ?
Just because something is legal to do, does not make it ethically sound, does not make it good or bad. It can still be unethical. In this instance I judge it as unethical and a douche move. And I believe if you look closely you would come to the same conclusion. Just be honest man, because you make it sound like "Everyone does this people! That makes it alright!" Well no it does not.