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I'm not sure if a 10% increase on registration price is going to materially change the math on squatting. My understanding is that squatting is like the VC game
by nrmitchi 5y ago
I'm not sure if a 10% increase on registration price is going to materially change the math on squatting. My understanding is that squatting is like the VC game; you expect many of them to be complete losses, with a couple giving outsized returns.
If you want to address squatting, then address squatting. If you want to address people squatting on new domains (as if there are many squat-able .com's left), then change the registration for new domain registrations only (and not renewals).
A change like this will primarily affect small domain holders in a way that is financially not worth fighting back against individually. I don't really see a "devils advocate" position here.
- amichal 5y agoYeah... my intuition was/is it wouldn't make a big dent, but an interesting thought experiment. That said. I think the small renewals are the part that makes holding onto these domains for years possible... Random example. 20 years ago I had a one person local IT consulting side-gig. The domain was a not very useful, active less than a year and grabbed by a speculator as expected when I let it expire. It's been parked many places for years by various folks, current parking pages quote says they might be able get it for me for $120 [1] -- I could care less but if someone with less tech experience wanted it for their new small business they would likely bite. Is there a economic mechanism you recommend to prevent this sort of thing? [1]https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?isc=GPPTCOM&utm_source=godaddy&utm_medium=parkedpages&utm_campaign=x_dom-broker_parkedpages_x_x_invest_a_001&tmskey=dpp_dbs&domainToCheck=100-acre.com https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?isc=GPPTCOM&utm_so...
- nrmitchi 5y agoHow about "If it's parked, or actively for sale (within the last X months), you don't get the renewal price."