[eddyionescu]

Yes please increase .com prices! That’ll discourage domain “investing” and keeping unused names (which we’re all guilty of). Something like $30/yr is still affordable but would really change the economics of holding onto unused domains and make life much easier for anyone starting a business (sadly anything other than com is still seen as sketchy).

[sharno]

This wouldn’t work. Domain squatters are always going to profit from most requested domains whatever the increase is. If $30 is affordable for the regular person it’s affordable for a squatter. Increasing prices though would prevent someone in a poor country who earns a couple of dollars a day from starting a website for their business.

Rather domains should be cheaper for less fortunate people to have better online presence