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by praptak 607 days ago
"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.

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

There is a finite amount of short, memorisable names.

But also an ever-increasing number of TLDs under which to register them.
But only .com actually matters.
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.