> A bunch of people using quality, high value domains for low value or mom and pop businesses is suboptimal too. Your proposition requires a significant amount

> A bunch of people using quality, high value domains for low value or mom and pop businesses is suboptimal too. Your proposition requires a significant amount of "pet project" and "mom and pop" businesses getting the domain first, and also that they refuse to sell out. This has to be so much of a problem that we're willing to regularly pay squatters for the "cure". This seems unlikely to me, and I would say the reality is closer to the squatters looking for a ransom on a domain they're holding hostage, and without them there would simply be many more domains still available from the registrars. Specifically that the hypothetical cases where a domain wouldn't be able to be negotiated at all are outweighed by the overall value currently lost to squatters.