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A good domain name is a scarce good, like a piece of land. How else do you want to solve the problem of distribution?

• majewsky 9y ago
  Exactly. I recently started a project that's not yet public (will take on the scale of years to get to that point), so the first thing that I did was to register the domain and the Github organization matching the project name. Would be extremely frustrating to find out that someone took it over a year after you started, and you have to go back and change the name all over the place.
  • alsetmusic 9y ago
    I waited to register a domain matching the name I was using as a musician and it was scooped up six months later by a malware ad company. I now register anything I plan to use in the future, even if I'm nowhere near ready to start. However, the domains that I register aren't related to properties or people and I'm not grabbing them just to sit on them or resell them. People who do that are, to me, unethical bottomfeeders.
• kuschku 9y ago
  Some NICs actually ban domain squatting, and that’s a good solutiion, IMO. If you actually need the domain, good, you can get it. If you only want to buy it to sell it later again, your problem.
  • tobltobs 9y ago
    You could just place some forum, blog or whatever on such a domain. Of course there wouldn't be much or no content at all. But how do you want to prevent this? With a "there must be regular content updates" rule? No problem, just create some nonsense text with Markov chains or copy some wikipedia pages. Now you would have to add a "Content must make sense" rule. Much fun to enforce this.