[vecinu]

> becomes to our friends on wall street.

Perhaps I'm misremembering but domain squatting was an issue for the last 20 years. Before "wall street" got a hold, I'm sure regular people like you and me just bought domains and sat on them for a while.

I know I used to try and guess which domains to buy and hold for some time but by the time I figured it out, those domains were already reserved.

It was also us engineers that figured out you can query ICANN for expiry information so you can catch domains that expire and steal them from other people. Not sure wall street had anything to do with that.

[mulmen]

I invoked Wall Street because the capital involved right now probably isn’t worth their time. When domains cost 4+ figures from the registrar then maybe it’s worth paying attention to.

This is all a response to the question of what point squatting is too expensive to continue. I submit that it can’t be.