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No, way more spammers want them than can get them - most people dont own a domain name hence the word "potential". Clothing.com is definitely something several
by hobs 7y ago
No, way more spammers want them than can get them - most people dont own a domain name hence the word "potential".
Clothing.com is definitely something several people/businesses want, certainly, and having an actual auction for a good multiple users want isn't nefarious, its the "as the domain registrar to prevent middle men from capturing the value I will automatically do it instead" that is.
If you want to make it less so, offer some service to stop ripping off individuals who want to buy one domain - is there possibly of abuse there? sure? but whose making all the money here?
There's no one bidding (except in an abstract sense of wanting to own it all) on the domains I am talking about - they are free to register at any time as long as you can pony up the cash.
- CydeWeys 7y agoSo who you propose runs the auction then, and who keeps the proceeds? As for everything else you're proposing, I'm not sure I understand how it'd work. How do you "stop ripping off individuals who want to buy one domain"? If .web launches tomorrow and a thousand people want clothing.web, how do you allocate it without holding an auction? If you do a lottery, how do you know that each entrant is a bona fide person and not a ticket box stuffer? I'm not seeing workable solutions being proposed here. On the domains you were talking about, there was an auction when the TLD launched, and those names just weren't taken during said auction. Plenty of others were.