> Domains cost so little for a reason, so everyone can afford them This is exactly right. Squatters are taking away from the people what the original designers

> Domains cost so little for a reason, so everyone can afford them This is exactly right. Squatters are taking away from the people what the original designers of the system intended. If they had intended that only those with lots of money had short-length domain names, then they would have made them expensive from the start -- or made the price a function of the character-length.