[wtmt]

Your suggestion is about a couple of decades late. Nevertheless, I don’t agree with it. Other gTLDs and ccTLDs May have issues of their own (price, control, lack of Whois privacy). Squatting will, and does, happen with other TLDs that are nowadays more common and recognized by laypeople. Making .com more expensive after all these decades will just enable rent seeking while harming millions of people. Many squatters would get a lot more money for their domains, and this would cause a rush to squat on more domains.

To handle squatting on .com better, my suggestion would be to have alternative TLDs available at a cheaper price (rather than making .com costlier). That could potentially help by making the others more popular (than now) and reduce the incentives to squat.

[kingludite]

Just raise the annual fee to 500 USD. 3 letter domains 50 k, 2 letter domains 100 k, words that are in the dictionary 25 k, refunds for squatters.

[forgottenpass]

So my personal email account just got $490/year more expensive? Or $24990/year if we count non-english dictionaries?

And I ought not to have it because I'm not hosting an online store or marketing materials for a megacorp? Fuck me for trying to have something nice without commercializing it, right?

[dawnerd]

Cool let’s hurt small businesses.