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> This is also how trademarks work in the US -- you can't sell a trademark. You can do that (as you are pointing out) so I am not sure why you are even saying

by gist 7y ago

> This is also how trademarks work in the US -- you can't sell a trademark. You can do that (as you are pointing out) so I am not sure why you are even saying that. > They could then do the same thing here -- transfer a domain along with the business that owns it. So now you are going to define what 'a business' is and further saying that a domain name can only be used for 'a business' and not by a person? Or are you going to extend this to what you think are 'legit' personal uses of domains? What you are trying to say is that you don't think that someone should be allowed to be 'in the business of selling domain names and we know it when we see it', right? So you are now going to take away all of the property that someone 'in the business of selling domain names' has and then what are you going to do with that exactly? Setup a system to then decide what an appropriate use of those domains are?

AnthonyMouse 7y ago
> So now you are going to define what 'a business' is and further saying that a domain name can only be used for 'a business' and not by a person? Or are you going to extend this to what you think are 'legit' personal uses of domains? There is no need to get into any of that because you can't sell a person. It's only a problem for a business because you can sell a business and thereby try to use a sham business sale to de facto sell a domain name. > What you are trying to say is that you don't think that someone should be allowed to be 'in the business of selling domain names and we know it when we see it', right? This is not actually that hard. You shouldn't be able to sell a domain name by itself nor sell "other thing that includes a domain name" for more than the fair market value of the other thing by itself. Sometimes determining the fair market value of something is non-trivial, but that doesn't stop us from doing it in any other case, e.g. when you receive non-monetary compensation from your employer and it has to have a market value assigned for tax purposes. > So you are now going to take away all of the property that someone 'in the business of selling domain names' has and then what are you going to do with that exactly? Setup a system to then decide what an appropriate use of those domains are? Without the ability to sell them, they would presumably no longer be inclined to keep paying the annual fees to uselessly hoard them and they would become unregistered names again.

by gist 7y ago

AnthonyMouse 7y ago

> So now you are going to define what 'a business' is and further saying that a domain name can only be used for 'a business' and not by a person? Or are you going to extend this to what you think are 'legit' personal uses of domains? There is no need to get into any of that because you can't sell a person. It's only a problem for a business because you can sell a business and thereby try to use a sham business sale to de facto sell a domain name. > What you are trying to say is that you don't think that someone should be allowed to be 'in the business of selling domain names and we know it when we see it', right? This is not actually that hard. You shouldn't be able to sell a domain name by itself nor sell "other thing that includes a domain name" for more than the fair market value of the other thing by itself. Sometimes determining the fair market value of something is non-trivial, but that doesn't stop us from doing it in any other case, e.g. when you receive non-monetary compensation from your employer and it has to have a market value assigned for tax purposes. > So you are now going to take away all of the property that someone 'in the business of selling domain names' has and then what are you going to do with that exactly? Setup a system to then decide what an appropriate use of those domains are? Without the ability to sell them, they would presumably no longer be inclined to keep paying the annual fees to uselessly hoard them and they would become unregistered names again.