"It's easy to find an unused domain name"
Oh, how I wish 12 year old me had foresight. And money.
(I have more of the latter now, of course, but probably about the same quantity of the former.)
Oh, how I wish 12 year old me had foresight. And money.
(I have more of the latter now, of course, but probably about the same quantity of the former.)
I think it priced the speculators out of the market.
This is why we old timers kick ourselves over skipping the land rush.
When they changed to a fee-based model, Network Solutions inherited the mgmt contract from InterNIC and charged $50/yr at first and then lowered the price to $35 (which then was lowered again when multiple registrars were allowed access to the NIC db).
There was this general consensus on the net (definitely not universal) that you ought to have a legitimate use for the name, so if your name was Bob McDonald you might have a claim to mcdonalds.com. This consensus eventually became mostly encoded into law.