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Franky, I don't see the point of this. It opens an all-new can of worms, just like allowing unicode in DNS, while being useless even for marketing purposes (people are used to sites being ".com" and suspect anything else).

So ".com" is crowded. It would be much better if someone did something about squatters. So many parked domains and so little done about it...

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Allowing languages other than English to participate in DNS may open a can of worms, but it is at least a significant advance that addresses a fundamental flaw in the Internet. (How would you feel if all internet addresses looked like 啤酒女孩和快速的汽車.可卡因, and you just had to deal with it if you wanted to use the internet?)

But in this case, I also fail to see how this really benefits anyone other than those who manage to monopolize and monetize TLD.

I agree. I think a viable solution would be something like if you haven't done something with in 1 year then the domain becomes available. I personally hate getting an idea, checking through domains only to see someone waiting for someone else to purchase their domain that they bought for $10 bucks off godaddy.

So domainers only have to upload a Wordpress and post some blog post (with copied content) and they have done something with the domain,that is not the solution

Parking is hard to fight. How do you define appropriate usage? Then, once you have, how do you deal with the services which will emerge to populate your domain while you squat?

It's trivial to fight. Just raise the amount that the first-level registrar pays ICANN to something like $10/year. ICANN gets a huge pile of money and speculative domain squatting becomes, with rare exceptions, uneconomic.

Domains probably get more expensive for the rest of us, but I can live with that.

What do the first-level registrars pay currently? Would that bump cause the yearly cost for the domain-buyers to increase by $10? If so, I don't understand why that's enough to have the effect against parking.

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