The Solution domain squatting

The last few months, I have a few comments now and again on how I hate the domain name squatters. These are people who buy a domain name and it Park indefinitely. They do nothing with it, and rarely have they same web hosting for her. If I had to guess, I would say that 75% of the registered domain names are not used in any sort of regular and useful manner.

I know that many squatters have intentions to do something great with their names from domain a day and just never get around him. Others buy them because they believe the foolish doctrine that all you need to do is to buy a domain name and people will come with huge amounts of cash to buy it running for you. The chances of this happening are less than the odds of winning the lottery.

I made comments in the past that squatting should be regulated and it demands that do you something with a domain to keep it. Many snap back saying that it is anti-capitalist and this estate should be treated as physical real estate. They say that the value of domain name must be dictated by the economic laws of supply and demand, and that if something is rare, it becomes more precious.

I do this. Real estate is virtual. It is ludicrous to think that domain namespace must be treated as real property. The only way that the comparison would be realistic, it is if there is an international Committee that created the land and sold it. Which does not occur on this planet. The system of real estate exists because the land is real, physical and established. The provision of domain space is effectively infinite. Anyone who works with virtual hosts knows it's true. You can create new hosts indefinitely and use all kinds of names.

This brings me to what I believe, it is the domain name squatting. Thedomain names should always be good markets and that there should be no limits in their creation. ICANN recently took a step forward in making it so a company could spend a few hundred grand to have their own domain extension. For example, Apple could go buy .apple as an extension, and instead use Apple.com/trailers may be www.apple or just apple. Then, as subdomains, they could create a store.apple instead of store.apple.com. The only problem with this approach by ICANN, it is that it is cost prohibitive to obtain your own extension. Only the rich can do it.

But if it was cheap, it opens many possibilities for domains. If a squatter is aware that people have millions of attractive domain name alternates, there is less value in what they are accumulation. The same rule of law, that I mentioned above applies. If you purchased the .labrum extension and has not done anything with it, and then in a short period of time, ICANN must let buy me clifton.labrum as a subdomain. If you do not use .labrum in a long period of time, I could then buy .labrum pure and simple.

Certainly, there must be many things that I think are here and there are many reasons to like domain name system, but my basic idea is that there is a surplus of name since its creation space is cheap and unlimited. Once this is the case, these millions of unused domain names float in availability and may actually get used.