[jamess]

Very good idea, I'd sooner give away a domain name to someone who was going to use it than let some blasted domain parking business get hold of it.

On the other hand, I have no idea how you'd stop domain parkers from actually using the service to get domains for free. With freecycle itself, it's probably quite hard to hide that you're abusing it to make cash on ebay or something, but I don't know how you'd prevent that with non-physical goods.

[vaksel]

by making it a pain in the ass...no domain parker is going to spend 1 minute requesting each domain.

So just throw up a questionnaire that asks them who they are, what the domain is going to be used for, etc

[jamess]

Wouldn't they just pay some Chinese sweat shop a dollar a throw or something? If they're saving money on registration fees, I don't see how making it a little awkward will deter them.

[vaksel]

Well it'd be up to the user then. They'll get to see the questionnaire of each person who wants the domain...So if the user wants to give his domain to Landing Pages, INC instead of Blind Hungry Crippled Orphans Charity that's up to them.

+ You can let the user make their own questionnaire ...so they can make their questions be as relevant as they want. i.e. lets say you own something like newyorkjetsftw.com, you'd ask some questions that only a true Jets fan would know or someone who'd want to spend the 10 minutes hunting down the information

[varaon]

Yeah, you'd need a serious karma system like eBay or stackoverflow. Problem is it makes it hard for first-time users.