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How much did that domain cost?
by melony 5y ago
How much did that domain cost?
- Aachen 5y agoI was thinking the same. Quite sad really: if simply nobody else was using it for something useful yet, it should just be available... I hate that domain squatting is legal. I'm fine with normal trade. I might use such a domain for personal use if this is my nickname or something, and if someone wants to have it and I want money for that, that's fine (it's annoying for me to move after all), but just buying whole dictionaries of domains... should be illegal for a scarce resource.
- amelius 5y agoIf that were the case, they would just install some simple game on that domain, so nobody could claim the domain was unused.
- Aachen 5y agoFrankly that'd be better than the status quo. If there are a million the same games with a different word as title from the same company, it's easy enough to show this isn't legit. You'd have to do at least a tiny amount of effort and raise the cost of registering whole dictionaries. Also, I'm not claiming to have a perfect solution for enforcement, just more generally that I wish we'd try to do something about it.
- amelius 5y agoSadly, judges seem to follow the letter of the law, not the spirit of it. So proving domain squatting is not really an option.
- lekevicius 5y agoNo idea, but system.com can tell that domain cost is related to: TLD, word being common, word being short. Hopefully that was useful! (sarcasm)