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Really dislike any suggestion like this. It won't help much, it'll just price the low end out of the market. Given that a good domain can sell for thousands, y

Really dislike any suggestion like this. It won't help much, it'll just price the low end out of the market. Given that a good domain can sell for thousands, you'd have to raise the fees a lot to deter people chasing that one hit. Meanwhile, you damage lots of small people who have domains for personal things that never were intended to make money. The Internet was meant to be an open place with low barriers of participation.

viscanti 14y ago
~$25 probably wouldn't stop the issue, but something ~$100 might. "GOOD" domains will always sell for well over that, regardless of a price floor. Owning a good domain name is like owning any other valuable good. Pricing around $100 helps with the long-tail of domain names. Most domains aren't worth sitting on for hundreds of dollars (in the majority of cases, where there's not an obvious quick flip). I'd even be for a tiered pricing structure. Domains under ~7 characters could be $100+, domains over 15 characters could be significantly cheaper.
- jarofgreen 14y ago
  > but something ~$100 might What about the cost to innocent parties? Really dislike this! > Domains under ~7 characters could be $100+, domains over 15 characters could be significantly cheaper. Now that could be good - Charge inversely by the character. Also has the side effect of discouraging URL shortening services :-)
zcvosdfdgj 14y ago
of course really good/valuable domains will always be worth a lot more than the registration fee. $25 is still basically nothing. Name one other thing important to you that you spend less than $25 PER YEAR on. Geez, right now I spend more on coffee in 1/2 a week than on a domain name. I spend more on toothpaste than a domain name. Who could possibly claim that is too high? Squatters of course think it is too high. Owning thousands of domains they consider worthless. Well other people don't consider those names to be worth less than $25.. so if you do, maybe you shouldn't have them registered.
dllthomas 14y ago
I wonder if it would work to price domains based on how many you already have. Charging $(5 * n^2) would keep squatting down while still allowing individuals to own a few domains they're using.
- jarofgreen 14y ago
  That would be good, but that only works if you have a fool proof system to determine how many someone already has. And what if a company own's a domain name, does it count towards someone's limit? People might just start setting up shell companies to own domains.
  - dllthomas 14y ago
    Certainly a major issue, although the costs of maintaining those shell companies (taxes and fees and whatnot) may help check it somewhat.

viscanti 14y ago

~$25 probably wouldn't stop the issue, but something ~$100 might. "GOOD" domains will always sell for well over that, regardless of a price floor. Owning a good domain name is like owning any other valuable good. Pricing around $100 helps with the long-tail of domain names. Most domains aren't worth sitting on for hundreds of dollars (in the majority of cases, where there's not an obvious quick flip). I'd even be for a tiered pricing structure. Domains under ~7 characters could be $100+, domains over 15 characters could be significantly cheaper.

jarofgreen 14y ago
> but something ~$100 might What about the cost to innocent parties? Really dislike this! > Domains under ~7 characters could be $100+, domains over 15 characters could be significantly cheaper. Now that could be good - Charge inversely by the character. Also has the side effect of discouraging URL shortening services :-)

zcvosdfdgj 14y ago

of course really good/valuable domains will always be worth a lot more than the registration fee. $25 is still basically nothing. Name one other thing important to you that you spend less than $25 PER YEAR on. Geez, right now I spend more on coffee in 1/2 a week than on a domain name. I spend more on toothpaste than a domain name. Who could possibly claim that is too high? Squatters of course think it is too high. Owning thousands of domains they consider worthless. Well other people don't consider those names to be worth less than $25.. so if you do, maybe you shouldn't have them registered.

dllthomas 14y ago

I wonder if it would work to price domains based on how many you already have. Charging $(5 * n^2) would keep squatting down while still allowing individuals to own a few domains they're using.

jarofgreen 14y ago
That would be good, but that only works if you have a fool proof system to determine how many someone already has. And what if a company own's a domain name, does it count towards someone's limit? People might just start setting up shell companies to own domains.
- dllthomas 14y ago
  Certainly a major issue, although the costs of maintaining those shell companies (taxes and fees and whatnot) may help check it somewhat.