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What's wrong with domain squatting? Should one have to give up land they own if they don't have a clear use for it?

There are human lifetimes worth of political philosophy that argues just that, yes. Many times that written about how land ought to be heavily taxed in accordance to its value.

For some examples, see the Lockean Proviso, Mutualism, and Georgism.

What if someone values the land to drain and grow crops more than the current owner who just likes ducks so keeps it in its natural state?

I guess they should have to pay taxes on the potential agricultural value because wild ducks don’t have any intrinsic market value?

I kind of suspect the basic argument is based on some fallacious theory of value…pretty much guarantee it methinks.

which isn't the case. just landed here, i'm the previous owner of puter.com and all the domains in that portotype.com page.

all of them i bought for my projects.

puter.com was purchased so that i'd build this https://berto.com/docs/2022-03-01-full-stack-markdown.html but this guy had a much better idea.

happy to explain what all of them are for. (mostly local content projects like decodeportugal.com)

It seems like for the first domain on your list (angeiras.com), you’re quite explicitly marketing it to the proprietor of the popular seafood place you mention. But if you say you’re not squatting, I’m sure there’s something I’m missing.

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