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I'm not a fan of squatters, but it's a complex problem. I'm not sure we can ban 'squatting' or 'scalping' per se. What we could do, however, is limit the maxim
by stakkur 6y ago
I'm not a fan of squatters, but it's a complex problem. I'm not sure we can ban 'squatting' or 'scalping' per se.
What we could do, however, is limit the maximum price a domain can be bought and sold for (say, $100). This would eliminate most incentives.
The meta solution, of course, would be to eliminate the necessity of TLDs altogether.
- waste_monk 6y ago>The meta solution, of course, would be to eliminate the necessity of TLDs altogether. Would you care to elaborate on this? Say we have no TLDs - everyone is now sharing the same address space, every company now has to compete for domains (who gets the most desirable domains e.g. "shop" or "bank"? do bank.com and bank.net have equal claim over it (assuming they're seperate entities) or does one former TLD have precedence for existing domains? who arbitrates disputes?), there's no separation for government or educational services (anyone who wants to offer free services to people with an academic email address can no longer validate on e.g. .edu or .edu.tld addressing, you have to maintain a list of every educational institution), different countries are now competing for domains... it would be chaos. The other option would be to have a public key thumbprint, similar to Tor, but then you have the problem of remembering the address - so you'd need something like DNS to convert memorable names to thumbprints, and then a means to find out what IP address holds what services and pubkeys...
- stakkur 6y agoI agree, it's a difficult problem. I don't have a brilliant alternative.