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Interesting that Google owns 'here', given the competing map business Here. Also that Amazon owns 'tunes'.

Many of these look like efforts to grab TLDs that would compete.

The domain business seems completely broken to me. Anything remotely useful has a squatter. I dream of a day when the entire system is obsolete.

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I have been able to pick up a handleful of useful domains like firstnamelastname.net without much effort and my total spend every year on domains is probably less than 50$. Maybe a dotcom is hard to come by but other TLD are not so bad. Your milage will totally vary, but I would say things are not totally broken, you can find decent domains at good prices if you're a l bit flexible or patient.

I'm really hoping for something like namecoin (or equivalent) to take off so that finally domain owners could really be owners of their domain.

No better than this. More $ means more squatting in both cases.

I don't think there's any system which can truly prevent squating. I'm open to more options though if that's possible.

Yes genuine competition is good and all it needs is browser consensus really.

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