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> Domain names pay per year because there's an ongoing service attached. There's no such thing for patent (besides fee to file) I work for a registrar and know
by jeltz 3y ago
> Domain names pay per year because there's an ongoing service attached. There's no such thing for patent (besides fee to file)
I work for a registrar and know people working at registries so I know that is not the case. The reason they charge more than like 1-2 dollars per year is to make it expensive to hoard domains.
- theshackleford 3y agoSadly though, not expensive enough to actually prevent anyone other than the very low end of consumers from hoarding domains. I worked for a registrar for a decade+ and worked with a lot of hoarders. Very early on in my career I actually dobbed one in to our local registry authority (because I was naive, and he was CLEARLY breaching the requirements for our ccTLD and so I thought 'Well this is wrong and I should report it') and is how I discovered nobody actually cares about hoarding and just wants to maximise revenue. (Well duh I suppose.)