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I do not think you know the domain business, which I happen to work in (I own a small registrar and know people at registries). The reason domain costs money is
by jeltz 3y ago
I do not think you know the domain business, which I happen to work in (I own a small registrar and know people at registries). The reason domain costs money is to make it more expensive to hoard, not to pay for any service. There is a service but it just costs a tiny fraction of the registry fee the rest they often use for funding various non-profit initiatives to improve the internet not related at all the providing any service. The fee is set where it is to discourage hoarding.
Edit: It is also there to make it slightly more expensive to create scam sites, but mostly for the anti-hoarding.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agoMakes complete sense. Domain hoarding is not cool and makes sense to mitigate using fees as you describe. Now, Patents already require fees and also substantial paperwork. In effect that is the "hoarding" control. I stand corrected that the point of ICANN and registrars to charge something is to introduce a barrier to entry. Yet, I'd argue you are still providing a service if the fees go towards nonprofit activity to improve interoperability. Yet, introducing a huge fee to patents wouldn't really be conductive to anything on the patent side, which is at the core my issue: I'm not making a judgement about the margin on fees, i'm questioning whether there's a semblance of service. From my vantage point, registrars have made massive improvements in accessibility and ease of use, and as you said, they have lowered the barriers to entry. | I can't say the same at all for patents.