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If domain names were free one guy/robot would inevitably take them all. If he couldn't sell them or be paid for the monumentally complicated service of allocati
by fundament 12y ago
If domain names were free one guy/robot would inevitably take them all. If he couldn't sell them or be paid for the monumentally complicated service of allocating them to the world (they're "free") then in the end nobody would have any domains except him, and everyone would use a different resolution system that wasn't free. The guy's domains would be worthless.
If domains were free they would have zero value. Just like bitcoin and virtually everything, ever.
- wodenokoto 12y agoNo, if the price of domain names collapses tomorrow to zero dollars news.ycombinator.com would still point to this website. This is the intrinsic value.
- fundament 12y agoThis intrinsic value isn't so intrinsic when every DNS registrar stops providing DNS services because they are unable to make money doing so. Fat lot of good it would do for n.yc.com to "point" here if there are no more authorities to do the pointing, and everyone has moved to a different system. There is absolutely no "intrinsic" value in a domain, other than that provided by the economic structures around it.