Yeah, those days were bad. Yet that doesn't mean the present isn't bad, either. I don't care for paying hundreds of dollars each year for domains for passion

Yeah, those days were bad. Yet that doesn't mean the present isn't bad, either. I don't care for paying hundreds of dollars each year for domains for passion projects, especially when I suspect the actual cost of running a TLD registry is much lower. In other words, I think the .com registry should be a non-profit, public service, rather than a money-printing machine that some lucky company gets to exploit.