Given that we don't even know why they were seized (or how many were seized by each person), it seems like you have an amazing hostility towards domainers in general.
What makes you so mad towards them?
What makes you so mad towards them?
You'd have to be a big fan of the coase theorem to enjoy paying $20 for a $0.20 parking space, when the only thing the seller has done to add value is get in your way.
Applicability to domains: maybe they should all be auctioned?
In this space - it's akin much more to having parking spaces near a sporting event or concert. In which case - there's lot of happy people willing to pay $20 for the privilege of parking.
Also - you should know that pricing goods based on "what they cost" isn't the proper way to valuate a property, service, etc. If that was the case, every user past 1,000 in most SAAS apps should just ask for their subscription to be free.
Also - calm down. There are businesses that are way worse than domainers.
That might be a reason for you to not do something even worse. But it doesn't make you less of a parasite.
In some cases, speculators provide actual value. E.g., they prove or maintain the assets that they speculate on. In others, as with financial speculators, they provide liquidity to the market.
Neither is true for domain speculators. They get paid for making the world worse.
Some domainners have lots of domains & develop lots of them into valuable properties. Sure - they have a few that are parked - but that's a percentage.
Typically - money is a measure of value you add to the world. They have to be adding some sort of value in the world or they wouldn't be able to extract value from their activities.
The classic medieval example is a bandit or a warlord who take over a section of road and extracts tolls. He didn't build the road, but he can extract plenty of money as long as he controls it.
You can tell from the language that the OP knew of an opportunity to buy mispriced assets and/or renew their domain, and having failed to take the opportunity is now upset at others having taken the opportunities they missed.
You know the kind of people that couldn't be bothered to spend $90 for a 10 year registration and now have to pay a few hundred to get a domain back they wasn't worth $10, or clicking the 'auto-renew' button to them.
There has to be some mechanism to release unused & unregistered domains back to the market.
And careful - you just dehumanized an entire set of people ("they're not people") because of the work they do. Domainners might be annoying - but they're not gangsters.
Only reason they they let this happen is because it's good for business. I'm sure domain like 95 percent of domain registrations are done by these so called "domainers" or people protecting themselves from then.