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I haven't looked for a .com in a long time, but when people are looking for .com's, do they really find that their choices are mostly taken by squatters and not
by jolmg 7y ago
I haven't looked for a .com in a long time, but when people are looking for .com's, do they really find that their choices are mostly taken by squatters and not by other people with legitimate uses for the domains? I would think that .com's are just saturated because it's the standard TLD and also because it was only recently that new TLDs appeared.
- dpcan 7y agoAll squatters. This price change won't affect anything in terms of squatters though, they'll keep buying even if the prices almost double over 10 years. This just means more money for ICANN / Verisign. Most squatters I know of today are holding domains simply so competitors can't have them. They don't do anything with them. They just sit there and point back to the registrar. I have many clients who own a ton of domains for just this purpose. Some think they may actually use the domain someday, some actually think if they point their domains to their website they'll get more business (nope), but still, they own a lot of domains that other people could probably use.
- yCombLinks 7y agoA huge percent of the ones I looked at last year were just squatters, yes.