vincevincevince - 1:23 am on Aug 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

Webwork, you make a good point. You don't seem to realise that most of us would rather pay over-the-odds to the TLD contract holder than pay it to Joe squatter.

Why? Because then you have a level playing field. All good domains will be expensive, not just squatted ones.

I can only see good in this proposal. If you want nicename.com and plan to run a few PPC ads and do no promotion then it would be better that you take long-not-so-nice-name.com and leave the serious domain names to those with serious business plans.

If I'm not making enough to justify inflated fees for my domain names I hold then I'd appreciate the wake-up call. Remember that nobody will register a domain name if the cost of the domain name is more than it is worth to them.

As to high pricing for corporate-named domains such as Google.org (as suggested by George) there is no competition for the domain name as nobody else but Google can legitimately register it. Hence a high price could not be supported and the domain would either go cheap to Google or remain unregistered.

[edited by: vincevincevince at 1:26 am (utc) on Aug. 25, 2006]