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by gsuuon 930 days ago
I was recently looking at domains and it's kind of frustrating how many good names are parked or listed on some site for 6 figures. I mean, I'm guilty of it too (hoarding), but I wonder what the internet would be like if there was some sort of "if you don't use it, you lose it" rule. In any case, a reasonable second-hand market should only help right? You may want to consider putting a cap on the prices to keep the market focused, like up to 5x a new registration price or something, if the intent is to get domains into good (useful) homes. Also, the site looks good!
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> I wonder what the internet would be like if there was some sort of "if you don't use it, you lose it" rule

I think about this a lot, too! I think the current system was a bit of a mistake ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> In any case, a reasonable second-hand market should only help right?

That's the goal! A friendly, reasonably priced marketplace with the idea of letting others use the domains you're accidentally hoarding

> Also, the site looks good!

Thank you very much :)

In the physical world, property taxes help with this. You can hoard land all you want but if you don't do anything useful with it you're going to have to pay for it, until it becomes more economical to sell it or build on top of it.

Granted it's not a perfect world.