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I completely agree, DNS-parking is harmful. However, I can't imagine a system for banning or enforcing 'fair use' of a domain. How would it be financed and run?
by yaseer 9y ago
I completely agree, DNS-parking is harmful. However, I can't imagine a system for banning or enforcing 'fair use' of a domain. How would it be financed and run?
I also can't imagine how you would legislate around the sales process of domains.
I've thought through a few options, but all paths lead back to a marketplace for domains as assets. In said marketplace, there will always be the equivalent of investment and speculation - so domain-parking is inevitable.
- AnthonyMouse 9y agoThe best way to fight speculation is to fight scarcity, i.e. create many (sensible) top level domains like .cars or .shop to increase competition with .com domains and drive down prices. Then more speculators go out of business because the price per domain goes down while the cost of parking it is unchanged.
- syrrim 9y agoOne possible system for ensuring domains would be fairly used is a google based one: When you register a domain, it initially sits alongside a high entropy string, like mything.3ku23j9. You then get traffic and links to go to your domain. If you get sufficiently popular, google will show your domain as one of the first hits for "mything". At that point, you get the mything domain bare.