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Fair enough, but even we use a floor price to disincentivise squatting, I'm not sure why we should gift those excess margins to a private company? Shouldn't IC
by scarab92 2y ago
Fair enough, but even we use a floor price to disincentivise squatting, I'm not sure why we should gift those excess margins to a private company?
Shouldn't ICANN collect that margin and use it for charitable purposes instead?
- notpushkin 2y agoYeah, that’s a good point. Then again, you can also that for any other gTLD (why should Google get the proceeds from .dev?), and that would be a valid question. I think the current system is inherently flawed... but it kinda works, and nobody wants to figure out the politics of fixing it – so I guess we’re stuck with it for a while.
- fc417fc802 2y ago> nobody wants to figure out the politics of fixing it The vast majority of people in the world have $0 on the line and no clue how these systems work. The majority who have an interest in fixing it have something like N×$10 per year on the line for a fairly small N. Those who don't want it fixed have billions on the line. It's not getting fixed anytime soon.