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How many .com domain names are unused?

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Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by austincheney »

dorgo wrote: post #123
austincheney wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is mathematically simple to fix. Charge US$0.50 per month ($6 per year) for every domain reservation regardless of who is reserving. The fee must be charged per month and not per year, which intentionally results in greater maintenance overhead. I don't care if you are a registrar, government, charity, school, or whatever. US$0.50 each and every month for each and every name. Registrars can slap whatever markup…

Advertisers often pay 3€ - 5€ to google for one click. If your 100,000 domains are not complete garbage, you should easily get a million out of it.

That is not really accurate. I used to work with this madness. Google ad displays/impressions are the result of transactional data micro-auctions. If there is high demand for a particular and well known data market, like Las Vegas hotel booking, the ad rate will be more.

The auction rate is determined by the winning bid rate of the competing content providers. In the Las Vegas hotel booking example the hotel properties might pay up to $16 for their ad display along side Google search results and up to $24 for a click through. Most ads, though, are rated at pennies. Anything that can achieve bid rates over $0.50 is a gold mine.

So, yes, some providers will pay far more than $7.00 for a click, but that is extraordinarily rare. This is even more rare when source and context are taken into account. Impressions that look organic, like on top of search results, are worth more than those that look like spam. I highly doubt ads that look like spam on a parked domain are doing more than pennies, likely fractions of a penny. The commonality of low rates and weak impressions on online advertising is also why Facebook shares aren't worth more than they are given the traffic and dedicated eyeballs that they have.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by austincheney »

dtech wrote: post #127
austincheney wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is mathematically simple to fix. Charge US$0.50 per month ($6 per year) for every domain reservation regardless of who is reserving. The fee must be charged per month and not per year, which intentionally results in greater maintenance overhead. I don't care if you are a registrar, government, charity, school, or whatever. US$0.50 each and every month for each and every name. Registrars can slap whatever markup…

most registrars already charge a yearly fee per domain. Does ICANN not already charge a fee per domain?

ICANN charges a ridiculously low maintenance fee to the registrars at something like $0.18 per domain per year.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&q=icann+...

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by austincheney »

collyw wrote: post #124
austincheney wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is mathematically simple to fix. Charge US$0.50 per month ($6 per year) for every domain reservation regardless of who is reserving. The fee must be charged per month and not per year, which intentionally results in greater maintenance overhead. I don't care if you are a registrar, government, charity, school, or whatever. US$0.50 each and every month for each and every name. Registrars can slap whatever markup…

Why wouldn't the monthly renewal be automated away?

There is liability in frequency of transactions that requires human monitoring. The more frequent a transaction is the more liability there is. If the charges were automated would you risk the presence, trademark, and health of your business that your domain will always be there due to that automation?

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by randiantech »

Tepix wrote: post #144
Pristina wrote: post #125

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most people are in the world are brainwashed by government propaganda to believe that the solution to any problem is more government power and control

Source? Also what's the proof that private organizations are a better solution to the problem? Just look at the US prison system.

Not to undermine your point, but you have used the worst possible example. In the top 1000 of worst prisons around the world, most if not all of them are not private. Just take a look a Brazil prison system as en example.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by randiantech »

minikites wrote: post #90
BurningFrog wrote: post #78

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When you scan for uncorrupt institutions, how the hell do you end up on "governments the world over"?

I've never understood why governments (or labor unions) default to "corrupt" and private firms default to "virtuous".

Mainly because most governments around the globe have the monopoly of public force, creating the perfect ground for arbitrary decisions. Its not black and white, by those defaults seems accurate.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by jmngomes »

dorgo wrote: post #123
austincheney wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is mathematically simple to fix. Charge US$0.50 per month ($6 per year) for every domain reservation regardless of who is reserving. The fee must be charged per month and not per year, which intentionally results in greater maintenance overhead. I don't care if you are a registrar, government, charity, school, or whatever. US$0.50 each and every month for each and every name. Registrars can slap whatever markup…

Advertisers often pay 3€ - 5€ to google for one click. If your 100,000 domains are not complete garbage, you should easily get a million out of it.

In some industries, you may get those levels of CPC on a high value web property, but a parked/error/empty domain will not be valued by a reputed ad network in the same way as an Alexa Top 10000 website would, the CPC/CPM will not even be close.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by randiantech »

darpa_escapee wrote: post #112
BurningFrog wrote: post #78

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When you scan for uncorrupt institutions, how the hell do you end up on "governments the world over"?

With the government, you get a vote. With other institutions, you have to hope their stakeholders' interests align with yours.

I can have a vote, but government will still force me to pay tributes at gunpoint. On the other hand, im not forced to buy most of private goods. At the end, the evil organizations are those that became monopolies, no matter if it is public or private.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by minikites »

beaconstudios wrote: post #137
minikites wrote: post #90

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I've never understood why governments (or labor unions) default to "corrupt" and private firms default to "virtuous".

it's more like both are made up of individuals with high self-interest. The difference is you can choose not to interact with a private firm.

I thought about this in the wake of the BP Deepwater oil spill. How exactly can I choose to avoid interacting with any company that produces a fungible commodity (e.g BP, Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto)?

I can stop visiting BP branded gas stations but that has nothing to do with where the oil/gasoline actually comes from.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by minikites »

randiantech wrote: post #155
minikites wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood why governments (or labor unions) default to "corrupt" and private firms default to "virtuous".

Mainly because most governments around the globe have the monopoly of public force, creating the perfect ground for arbitrary decisions. Its not black and white, by those defaults seems accurate.

Are there private firms that don't make arbitrary decisions?

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by beaconstudios »

minikites wrote: post #158
beaconstudios wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's more like both are made up of individuals with high self-interest. The difference is you can choose not to interact with a private firm.

I thought about this in the wake of the BP Deepwater oil spill. How exactly can I choose to avoid interacting with any company that produces a fungible commodity (e.g BP, Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto)? I can stop visiting BP branded gas stations but that has nothing to do with where the oil/gasoline actually comes from.

I agree, that's an issue. Or if you wanted to stop funding exploitative mining but still wanted to own electronics, you might have a hard time. But I prefer the "you can often avoid interacting with them" option of private companies, to the "you cannot avoid them and are entirely at the mercy of their whims" option of government.

Not to say government isn't necessary - it is. But I don't understand why people treat it as virtuous, especially when those same people will express distrust in politicians. I suppose it's because government is the only way to legitimately force one's will on others.

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