[chanind]

Raising the price would solve the issue overnight. It doesn't need to be a uniform price increase, either - ICANN can guess which domain names are likely to be pricey based on length, dictionary words, or other heuristics. It can't be that hard. There's no reason why every domain name needs to cost the same amount per month. Domain squatters only do this because it's economically viable for them to register 10K domain names and just extort anyone who wants to do anything productive with them.

Also, ICANN should directly auction expiring domain names themselves. It's infuriating that when a domain name expires, whoever has the fastest script pays $10 and then immediately resells it for $100K to whoever actually needed it.

[FDSGSG]

It sounds like your proposal would not change anything except who the money goes to, which hardly seems like an improvement.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

I’d rather pay my local government for drugs over a drug dealer who then used that money to do more bad.

[ryanlol]

Your local government would at least attempt to spend that money on useful things.

ICANN and the registries are just bigger drug dealers, they too will use that money to do more bad.