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> The price of domains should trend down.

Their value doesn't, so why should renewals go down?* It's not like registration is related to anything like cost of operation...

*: I'm not in favour of this, but living in a capitalist market, I'm surprised things haven't gotten much worse, e.g. a sliding scale cost for domains, so Amazon would have to pay $50,000,000/year for its domain, for example.

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I was actually thinking about this the other day. Domains are too easy to get, and too cheap to hold on to. I like being able to go to Namecheap and buy a domain name for under $10... what I don't like is the hours or days I spend trying to find a domain name that isn't already taken and parked. And even if you paid $3k for that parked domain, it might now have years of history with search engines as a parked domain that you have to fight against.

If ICANN really wants more money, they'd increase the renewal fee for parked domains every year until it's actually put into use.

>If ICANN really wants more money, they'd increase the renewal fee for parked domains every year until it's actually put into use.

and how do you differentiate a parked domain from a non-parked domain?

Yeah, people always use domains for non-website purposes, like email etc with nothing coming up if browsed. Also, with no dns on main except cnames, which can not be easily found as easily mx or txt records can be seen on a gived direct domain.

That’s not really a parked domain then is it? You know when you’ve hit a parked domain when it loads a page covered in ads that says “buy this domain for $30,000” at the top.

That’s for ICANN to figure out.

They’d just make more sophisticated parking pages.

> e.g. a sliding scale cost for domains, so Amazon would have to pay $50,000,000/year for its domain

at which point the government suddenly feels an urgent need to step in.

> It's not like registration is related to anything like cost of operation.

It would seem like it should.

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