| FWIW, I was trying to find out what the site looked like before this kerfuffle. I only found this: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dropbox.com which doesn't show too much except for some godaddy.com domain parking. If it was just a domain parked while the guy was trying to figure out what he wanted to do with it, I'm not so excited about the outcome. If it was misleading site pretending to be getdropbox.com, then that's a whole other story. There really needs to be a better system for domain name registration. I'm all for inexpensive domain names but perhaps there should be some sort of waiting list, and if people are on the waiting list, the renewal fees get raised by a set amount each year (perhaps capped at something like 25%) as long as there was a waiting list. Once the person doesn't renew, the first person on the waiting list gets it but they get charged at the new rate. In that way, you couldn't just squat on a domain without doing something with it and eventually there would be a fair market price for it. If no one wanted it, the price for the domain would stay low. There is probably still some gaming in a system like that but at least it would encourage more turnover of unused domains, which would be a good thing. |