[ericwooley]

It's not a 10$ per year thing anymore though, for any reasonable domain it's at least 2k, because of squatters and bullshit.

Honestly, I don't think I agree with the solution as proposed, but IMO something does need to change, and this avenue could be refined.

EG pay a reasonable fee to have the domains parking status be looked appealed. At the very least, we could probably solve cases where I had ownership, let it lapse and someone re-registered for the purpose of extortion. Even if the fee was the same as the extortion price, at least the squatter makes nothing and has just wasted their time.

-- Another thought on expiration squatting specifically, is that there should be a grace period for the original owner to re register. Like 2 weeks. Enough that a site owner could notice the lapse, and get their site re-registered, without needing to compete with the automated bots.

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Another avenue could be domain owner reputation. Where you need to have a reasonable reputation to buy a recently expired domain. A bigger company could co sign for you for a fee, but they would be risking their own reputation.

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I think there are probably a lot of other, better ideas, and we should all persue them. If only there were the political will power to make it happen. There is probably already to many entrenched stakeholders to ever get real change.

Maybe there should just be a DNS 2.0, the whole system is rethought from the ground up.

Sounds like a potential Blockchain startup idea. I guess I'm about to spend the next week researching, and or writing a white paper.