[Guest192038]

The easiest solution is to raise the price so it's no longer a viable business to squat domains. Right now you can buy 1,000 domains for $10k a year, and you just need to a handful of those to be worth something to the right person, and you break even.

Raise the price of a .com to $100 per year. This remains a minimal cost to any profitable business, and it's cheap enough for new startups to buy a domain for a year or two while attempting a new business.

If you can't afford it, well, you have countless other domain extensions you can choose from at a cheaper rate.

I'd much rather pay $100 per year for a .com that I want, instead of having a domain squatter asking $2k, and then having to settle for my fourth or fifth choice that's actually available to register.

[1123581321]

I'd argue that the median price paid to a squatter is less than the present value of $100/year for the life of the domain ownership minus the present value of $10/year for the life of the domain ownership. So your proposal, while shutting out squatters, would cost typical legitimate domain owners more money.