> of all of the millions of registered domains, only those which are profiting their creators are truly taken without much chance of being reclaimed (probably 1

> of all of the millions of registered domains, only those which are profiting their creators are truly taken without much chance of being reclaimed (probably 1% or fewer). I don't think this is true. Domains are so cheap to keep around, squatters only need to profit on a small percentage of them to keep a large number of them on hand. If a squatter lets go of one, another squatter will simply pick it up. I'll give you an example: When I was in high school in the late 90's, I registered my last name as a domain name (uresk.com). At some point (1999, I think) I couldn't afford the registration fee (~$35 per year back then, I think) and had to drop it, thinking I'd pick it back up later. Ever since then, the domain has bounced around various squatters and is to this day unavailable to me. There is no way they are making any money off this domain name: - I have an incredibly uncommon last name that is shared by maybe only a thousand or fewer people in the world. - The .net version of the domain name (which I own) gets only a few thousand visitors per year. - The sites run on the .com version have never had anything but parking pages up. The only reason the domain name keeps getting registered is because of the criteria that someone owned it before. I'd be shocked if the domain name became available in my lifetime. I see this same situation played out whenever I go to find a new domain for a business idea I have - all of the decent domains are just be squatted on, and the only way to get them is to pay insane fees to squatters. So, no - the problem isn't going to resolve itself.