And guess what, the domain haiku.org is collecting dust. What a surprise with how civil the domain market is.
https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/#why-isnt-it-called-haiku...
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-01-01 14:17 CST
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 14:17
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 14:17, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating Connect Scan at 14:17
Scanning haiku.org (35.213.168.88) [11 ports]
Completed Connect Scan at 14:17, 5.00s elapsed (11 total ports)
Nmap scan report for haiku.org (35.213.168.88)
Host is up.
rDNS record for 35.213.168.88: 88.168.213.35.bc.googleusercontent.com
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp filtered ftp
25/tcp filtered smtp
53/tcp filtered domain
80/tcp filtered http
110/tcp filtered pop3
143/tcp filtered imap
443/tcp filtered https
587/tcp filtered submission
993/tcp filtered imaps
995/tcp filtered pop3s
3306/tcp filtered mysql
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.06 secondsAssuming everyone here from many companies from large corporations / startups to small open-source companies know how expensive some domain names are.
Either way, if squatting of high value domains were illegal, you could make the case for some form of (civil) asset forfeiture, or eminent domain if the taker is a popular open source project. Not sure how I'd feel about this, though.
It's a laughable idea.
Which is why I mentioned it in relation to open source, separately from forfeiture :)