This is beyond belief. This is cronyism and corruption at it's worst and is flat wrong at best. If SAR does not voluntarily surrender their possession of the URL they essentially Hijacked from fellow Realtor Marc Rasmussen than I feel NAR or the Florida Association of Realtors needs to step in for the good of their collective reputations.
Please refer to these 2 BLOGS to catch up on this theft of individual achievement by the Sarasota Association of Realtors and the entrenched interests who are now benefiting from literally stealing the achievements of a fellow Sarasota Realtor. Sharp language? How would you like to be Marc. Explain to me how this man can ever feel that he is living in the land of opportunity after what has happened to his business through no fault of his own.
http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blogs/morgan-carey/6350/show/
The moral question is this, is the Realtor association arrayed for the good of the public and all its members or the good of the association big wigs and their own private business interests? That is the legal and moral question that ALL Realtors should be outraged over. Here is a clear case of a Realtor RAISING the standard for on-line website excellence and who has built a brand through thousands of hours of toil and expense only to have his work harvested out from underneath him by the association he is a member of? Yes, it is as crazy as it sounds, but unfortunately this is what is going on.
The URL that Marc Rasmussen created and worked like the devil to perfect through tens of thousands of dollars of personal expense is now in the possession of SAR through a very questionable ICANN ruling that should have never happened I the first place! And they HAVE already employed this top ranking Google URL to their own use by redirecting it to their website, sarasotarealtors.com, hence stealing the inbound weight of the leads this URL will bring to them without EVER HAVING TO DEVELOP this advantage using a dime of SAR MONEY. I find this an AFFRONT to civil behavior in general and completely unacceptable coming from an association of realtors.
I vote for Marc Rasmussen and I am appalled about the conduct taken by SAR
The more I read about this issue SICKER and angrier I get.
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