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Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by degenerate »

walrus01 wrote: post #75
zanny wrote: post #52

I'm not really well informed about the politics of DNS at the top, but I've always had the impression ICANN has been grossly negligent / corrupted over the last twenty years. At the end of the day there is profound capital interest in making name records unfair and noncompetitive in order to rent seek fortunes off the Internet and I see no indication ICANN is anything but compromised by those interests in the way the…

One need only look at the $185,000 "application fees" paid to icann by companies like donuts, and play follow the money, for all these new insipid GTLDs.

I'm still waiting for ICANN to approve some scammer that realizes he can buy the rights to the .conn TLD and phish the entire world with apple.conn / google.conn etc... talk about juicy ROI

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by ndnxhs »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #86
ndnxhs wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Domains already require your real life info. Just give something like 5 free domain names per person and tie it to their ID. There exists more than enough useful domains for everyone its just most go unused

That’s a completely impractical suggestion, that ignores how domain names are actually used. Domain names are used primarily by organisations, not individuals. But even for individuals this wouldn’t work. Vanity domains are still going to be scarce, and the names in demand for organisations are still going to be scarce. And why should there be any limit on the number of domains you can buy? What if I have 6 projects…

Businesses can still buy all the domain names they want just like they can now. The owner of a small business just needs 1 domain for their cafe and maybe one more for personal email.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by AmericanChopper »

ndnxhs wrote: post #92
AmericanChopper wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a completely impractical suggestion, that ignores how domain names are actually used. Domain names are used primarily by organisations, not individuals. But even for individuals this wouldn’t work. Vanity domains are still going to be scarce, and the names in demand for organisations are still going to be scarce. And why should there be any limit on the number of domains you can buy? What if I have 6 projects…

Businesses can still buy all the domain names they want just like they can now. The owner of a small business just needs 1 domain for their cafe and maybe one more for personal email.

You know these speculators are businesses right? What problem do you think your suggestion is solving?

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by thevagrant »

computator wrote: post #34

Can a domain name registrar register a domain name for themselves for free or for a minimal fee? What about Verisign -- if they registered ".com" domain names for themselves , who would they even pay since there is no one above them? Seriously, does anyone know the answer to this? I've never found an authoritative answer. I've wondered if domain name registrars are speculating in the domain name market themselves. Pe…

A long long time ago, I do remember that Verisign did something with the .com namespace so that unregistered domain queries got redirected to a default webpage they hosted (no doubt with plans to monetize). My memory is hazy but I've included some links below.

There was a massive backlash for obvious reasons and they reversed the change quite quickly.

Whenever I use Chrome and it redirects a legitimate website URL that I've hosted locally to their search engine as a search query... I feel a sense of disappointment with the IT community, in that we let Google hijack everything in a similar way without much criticism at all.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2003/09/2824-2/

[2] https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/05/verisign-gets-...

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by cortesoft »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

I mean, lots of people think both are corrupt.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by sbov »

techsupporter wrote: post #44
munk-a wrote: post #24

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I absolutely disagree, but I think it is reasonable for domain authorities of various gTLDs to incorporate company names into domain name rights a bit more - if your company is FooBar and foobar.com is taken you may get some legal advantage in any efforts to secure it, this could just shift the domain name squatting issue to a company name squatting issue though. And, I'm also making the assumption that we're fine wi…

> And, I'm also making the assumption that we're fine with pushing personal pages and other domain uses off on a different gTLD. This is a sure sign of getting old, in the vein of "old man yells at cloud," but you can have my personal domain that's been registered in a common gTLD long enough for it to buy its own beer when you pry it out of my registrar's hands. Yeah, it sucks to have come along at the end of the la…

This is one benefit of having a unique name. My good friend, "Robert Miller" is out of luck. Me, well, yeah. Only one person with my name in the United States, possibly the world.

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by markdown »

zanny wrote: post #52

I'm not really well informed about the politics of DNS at the top, but I've always had the impression ICANN has been grossly negligent / corrupted over the last twenty years. At the end of the day there is profound capital interest in making name records unfair and noncompetitive in order to rent seek fortunes off the Internet and I see no indication ICANN is anything but compromised by those interests in the way the…

One of the worst squatters right now is www.hugedomains.com

They buy up expired domains and immediately put them up for sale for $XXXX

At that price, they can sit on the domains for decades and still make a profit when it's sold.

Eg: https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_search.cfm?domain_name=cs...

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by jlgaddis »

spking wrote: post #67

I own nibble.com and rolled my own very simple static "parked" page using Bootstrap and an Escrow.com button. In my opinion the parking services like Sedo etc. aren't worth it just for capturing sales leads...the commission is too high.

Just in the last few days, I've been looking for something simple like this to put on userhelp.com, thanks!

Re: How many .com domain names are unused?

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Post by strken »

S_A_P wrote: post #89
ndnxhs wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a system where each individual is entitled to a few domain names for no cost on their local cctld. That way real users get the domains they want and hoarders have to pay.

Wait, what??? Think really long and hard about how that would play out. This is a scarce resource, that like many digital items feels cheaper than it really is. I personally think that domain registration should cost more. That would a) stop casual speculation and b ) make those speculators feel like holding on to a domain less appealing. I own way more domain names than I have time to work on and until there is any…

Perhaps you could have a ratcheting cost, where the first 100 domains are $10 each, the next 100 are $20 each, and so on up to some upper bound, with provisions for shell companies that solely register domains.
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