[praptak]

"Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start."

I don't think it's possible to fix this problem without also helping bad actors. Maybe it's a problem that just isn't worth fixing. Just don't buy preexisting domains unless it's a project big enough to justify the necessary cost of due diligence.

[matheusmoreira]

Then help them. If a few bad actors is the price of a free internet, so be it. I'd rather deal with those than have a whitelisted internet where you need permission to start a website.

[lukan]

"Maybe it's a problem that just isn't worth fixing."

There is a finite amount of short, memorisable names.

[6031769]

But also an ever-increasing number of TLDs under which to register them.

[barryrandall]

But only .com actually matters.

[xp84]

The really bad actors just buy and discard new domains daily and silly blacklisting techniques are powerless to prevent that. I don’t think they renew and come back to try to use their domains years later.