Now, the price for owning such a basic domain name is insanely high compared to what it is. By now, in a free market, price should be close to zero and not the opposite.
These ass are abusing of their monopoly position to racket us all, I would like so much that something could be done by someone.
For custom root domains like CEO, I don't care that much, but .com, .net, should be kind of a common good.
Otherwise, maybe we should push for an alternative global domain name system.