There are some steps slowly being taken to deal with that, in Washington DC, apparently the tax on vacant property is %5 rather than 0.85% [1] (although I expec

There are some steps slowly being taken to deal with that, in Washington DC, apparently the tax on vacant property is %5 rather than 0.85% [1] (although I expect that's more to keep their revenue the same since vacant lots aren't worth much). The equivalent first step for domains though is for Google to stop treating made-for-adsense domains as real sites, so the $10/year/domain can't be offset by tricking advertisers and web neophytes. [1] http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2008/08/more_vacants/ http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2008/08/more_vacants/