alt Hacker NewsThe much simpler way to avoid squatting is to make .com domains cost $200 a year. This will instantly end the vast majority of domain squatting on the .com TLD and if people can easily get the .com they need for their business then the other TLDs are not going to have much squatting activity.
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zelphirkalt • today at 7:47 AM
How does this lend itself to self-hosting then? I think few people will pay that much to self host.
schrodinger • today at 5:45 AM
I don't get it. How do you handle 10k people wanting, say, garden.com, without a free market?
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> The much simpler way to avoid squatting is to make .com domains cost $200 a year
A monopolist hiking prices to this extent will likely see legal action against them. That's a 20x increase you're proposing.
It's also unlikely to have a material effect. .com used to cost $75 a year back in the day, and that didn't stop squatters, and high value domain transfer sales. $75 in 1990s dollars is about $150-$190 today.