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Honest question, are people outside the domain squatter economy (squatters and their customers) actually paying for .com domains? I’ve never been able to secure a .com for a project, they are all squatted and being sold at a massive (like 1000x+) markup.
Is there a price level that would noticably reduce the prevalence of namesquatting? Maybe at $100 or $1000? Is there a price level at which the nerds say "fuck this" and create new domain roots without ICANN?
Honest question, are people outside the domain squatter economy (squatters and their customers) actually paying for .com domains? I’ve never been able to secure a .com for a project, they are all squatted and being sold at a massive (like 1000x+) markup.
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Even if i agree with you, why should a monopoly get the money? I am sure we can figure a better way to spend it.
How are they a monopoly? There's literally thousands of TLDs now. It's like saying Apple has a monopoly on iPhones.
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Even if i agree with you, why should a monopoly get the money? I am sure we can figure a better way to spend it.
How are they a monopoly? There's literally thousands of TLDs now. It's like saying Apple has a monopoly on iPhones.
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Even if i agree with you, why should a monopoly get the money? I am sure we can figure a better way to spend it.
How are they a monopoly? There's literally thousands of TLDs now. It's like saying Apple has a monopoly on iPhones.
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Well the fact that the practice continues suggests to me that someone is spending the money. But I don't know of any examples.
It could also indicate that it’s relatively cheap to sit on domains for 20 years, patiently waiting for someone to pony up. It’s not like valuable domains are more expensive to renew.
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That's incredibly fucked up. The .com contract needs to go out to tender.
I think the huge amount of domain camping implies that .com could stand to be a whole lot more expensive to hold and do nothing with. If you're using it for something important, $20/yr probably isn't going to break the bank. If anything, I think it should be much more.
13 year old me would disagree. A .co.uk domain at the time was if I recall correctly about £5/year, equivalent to a week's wages from my paper round. A .com was around £12-15/year which I found too expensive. I learned a lot hacking around with DNS, subdomains, etc. and I wouldn't want to price today's kids out of doing the same. Saying that, back then there were only a few TLDs to choose from. I guess if there are still at least _some_ super cheap TLDs available then I probably wouldn't mind if .com in particular got more expensive given it seems to suffer the most from squatting.
Honest question, are people outside the domain squatter economy (squatters and their customers) actually paying for .com domains? I’ve never been able to secure a .com for a project, they are all squatted and being sold at a massive (like 1000x+) markup.
There are literally an infinite number of un-squatted .com domains available.