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I look forward to you reviewing your HN contributions in a decade or so.

You're probably thinking of Prop 13, which, no argument. But I don't think the fix is as straightforward as you imply. (TLDR the biggest problems are due to corporate landowners, n…

Near as I can tell, the domain isn't "highly-in-demand" in any meaningful way. I think the whiners who carp about its current use are just crypto-jealous.

At least where I live (California US), that's not true. There are certain things which trigger a change in taxable value, but they're mostly only indirectly connected to appraised …

Just to be clear, do you believe milk.com is being squatted on right now? Should its registrant morally pay more than the default annual registration cost? If so: How does consiste…

People pay registration fees every year for domains. How is what you propose different than registrars setting different fees for different domains? Or: What entity should be entit…

Are you proposing every domain name registrant pay for an annual appraisal, whether or not they are planning on selling?

I know of no truly serious offers for the domain, but why should that matter? I'm pretty sure residences aren't taxed based on un-accepted offers, for example.

How would you calculate the FMV of milk.com?

I don't think he wants offers?

In what way is he actually speculating or rent seeking? He has a real website on it — not just a placeholder — and he's got DNS MX records, so it's presumably actively used for ema…

This is also my take.

Pretty sure the main answer is that he's not actually engaging in rent-seeking in any pejorative sense.

Apple doesn't in fact have a blanket trademark on the word "apple."

FWIW I don't think he actually ever intends to or expects to sell.

My read on his "value" page is that he doesn't actually want to sell. Assuming he just wants to keep using the domain for his personal site and have the same email address he's had…

I didn't ask for a definition. In what way does that apply to milk.com? Is the owner seeking to get wealthy from it? And if so, is he also somehow failing to create sufficient weal…

What "rent" is he seeking?

His brand is strong, perhaps.

In what way is this site "squatting?" I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you can't get a trademark on simple English words like "milk."

I also wouldn't buy milk.com for $2000. Does that mean I should sell it for $2000? In any case, there is also a time / hassle reason to not sell: It would mean the loss of the only…

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I mean, I really would sell for $10MM. But I think I'd be giving someone a real steal for (much) less. Like, sure, I could use $100,000, but does that mean I should sell a more-val…

For me too. Yes I am fortunate in multiple regards.

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