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Apathy is one of human beings most common traits, especially in business, and always in society in general. Most people are slaves to the systems that rule and control their lives, be it political powers, the company they slave for, powerful special interest groups that lobby laws to benefit only them, governments, the legal system, whatever, there are endless masters out there. After awhile people just give up inside and become resigned to this unfortunate fact of life. Even when you defeat one system, another one pops up to try and control things in our lives. In this business, even being the rebel entrepreneurs domainers most of us are, we've all become slaves to a variety of regulations, systems, search engines, ppc companies, registrars, and on and on. I truly think this is why so many domainers are apathetic about supporting and forming organized efforts to protect their rights and assets. The forces against us are seen as overwhelming. Although we are powerful in a certain respect, the reality is the people and companies that have this industry and our assets in their sights, are so enormously powerful, legally and politically connected and funded with billions of dollars, most of us recognize it will be a battle like a militia of mere hundreds fighting with bows and arrows going up against a nuclear equipped and overpowering worldwide military force. Some take the Alamo stance perhaps and say if we're going to die, let us die fighting, but the majority say screw it and just head for the hills and hope for the best. Even if we assembled a million dollars, would that be enough firepower to battle the forces ahead? That is the sad reality I think most domainers see and become apathetic from. From personal experience, in the 900 pay per call industry the same exact thing happened. It was a goldmine for many years, and then the legislators came in and made it easy for people to chargeback and not pay for their calls, the phone companies were taking all the profits, politicians wrote laws making it cost prohibitive to do business, publications jacked up rates so it become costly to advertise and then the final nail on the coffin came with the Internet which pretty much closed up the 900 goldmine for good. Like domaining we tried to organize lobbying efforts for 900, but it was futile, and no one in the industry wanted to work in a unified defense nor fund a unified defense. And what was a great business faded into the sunset after a decade. But, most 900 guys became fantastic marketers from that industry and successfully migrated to the Internet and are amongst some of the most successful Web entrepreneurs today. So when one door closed another opened for everyone. This explains why apathy is always so common, everyone knows nothing great lasts forever anyway. If you catch a huge wave in business and ride it well you can make a fortune, but every great entrepreneur surfer knows every wave will eventually crash and they'll have to venture back out into the ocean and look for the next one. This is why 99% of domainers don't give a damn about organizing nor protecting their future and never will. Sad, but true.