[a1371]

Cybersquatting is one prime example of value extraction vs value creation. HugeDomain has sat on my obscure family name's .com domain name and wants to sell it to me. Every year their price goes up a thousand dollars.

Hot take:

We should work towards dethroning .com as the default so that all the people who trade domain names lose all the money they had never earned. I'm also for a more expensive .com base price. Some of the things that make moving away from .com hard is the blanket gtld level email/traffic bans in Sophos and other security firms

[kortilla]

> We should work towards dethroning .com as the default

Be the change you want to see. Why do you want the .com version of your family name?

[ChocolateGod]

.com has become the unofficial "primary" non-geo specific domain name tld, if you own the .com, you own the name effectively on the internet, everything else is usually seen as lower class.