Hyperbole, I was using it. The worst I'm going to do to a domain squatter, should I meet one, is give them an uncomfortably firm handshake. Very firm. There

Hyperbole, I was using it. The worst I'm going to do to a domain squatter, should I meet one, is give them an uncomfortably firm handshake. Very firm. There may be some mild bruising. (That's more hyperbole there, to be clear. I'm exaggerating for effect.) Nowhere in your response did you demonstrate where you as a squatter are providing value for the premium you ask over the ICANN cost. It's my contention that you provide none. Squatting has no offline analogue, period. Trying to invoke real estate, a common tack, only succeeds at the most superficial levels. The barriers to entry, risks, and perpetuated costs of real estate speculation/ownership fracture the comparison quickly. Note that nowhere have I said that squatting should be illegal, in fact I said that as a libertarian I understand why it has to exist. In the same vein, I believe other business models that are currently illegal should be legitimized, even though I find them as repugnant and without value as domain squatting.