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Thank you for saying this. I think a lot of people probably haven't felt the pain of actually acquiring a trademark and branded domain these days. My personal
by mdorazio 7y ago
Thank you for saying this. I think a lot of people probably haven't felt the pain of actually acquiring a trademark and branded domain these days. My personal opinion is that .com domains should be a minimum $100 per year. At this price point the number of available domains would skyrocket effectively overnight as it became untenable for squatters to hold on to them. If you can't afford $100/year for a domain to be used for something actually useful, you probably don't need that domain in the first place.
Of course at that price point, HTTPS should be the default and the extra profits should go somewhere other than ICANN.
- IceWreck 7y agoYoure thinking about yourself. Students etc who have .com domains cant afford $100 a year for their domain? Should they be forced to give up their domains because people like you couldnt get their chosen domains from squatters/
- mdorazio 7y agoI'm not sure why students etc. need specifically .com domains.
- monkeywork 7y agoExplain please? Is there something about a .com that makes one group of people less "needy" of it.
- tastroder 7y agoRight, they can use free .tk, .xx.yy domains that highjack their content to serve ads. It's fine. /s We've been there people and it sucked, hard. Neither anybody here, nor ICANN, should get to decide what people can or cannot use domains for. Stipulating such restrictions or unreasonably raising prices to exclude any group that is neither rich or a company would essentially break the TLD. In that case you can just get rid of .com and tie it into the US trademark system if you like. Maybe that's where the internet is going these days but it's neither natural nor a good direction in my book.
- ohashi 7y agoAlso ignoring poorer countries in the world. Not everyone makes high western developer salaries. Why should .com domain names suddenly be gate kept and all the profits going into a monopoly and a corrupt oversight organization?
- paulryanrogers 7y agoThis could cause more centralization of the web. It's likely that other TLDs will follow since .com is one of the cheaper ones and the most commonly sought.
- Can_Not 7y agoThe worst squatters don't pay the same prices as we do. This will price more people out of their first domain than price out any serious squatters.