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Firstly, squatting is a problem that ICANN itself created (or at least contributed to creation of) through their broken reseller policies. Would you mind elab
by Dove 15y ago
Firstly, squatting is a problem that ICANN itself created (or at least contributed to creation of) through their broken reseller policies.
Would you mind elaborating on that? I'm curious what you think they should have done.
- romaniv 15y agoThere are two issues that, in my opinion, contribute to massive squatting problem. First, squatters can buy domains in bulk and pay next to nothing for each of them. (Sometimes they pay nothing at all, abusing trial periods and renewal rules.) This is what makes squatting on such a massive scale possible. Second, modern DNS structure is effectively a global namespace: there are only a handful of TLDs that matter and they are awfully generic, so they collide. TLDs do not classify anything, and they should. Also, if someone bought the name you want, there are no equivalent (but different) alternatives. That's another thing that makes squatting profitable.