I wanted to name my monitoring project something simple. Every decent dictionary word is parked, has a buy-now price of $5K, or redirects to some "premium domain" broker with a stock photo of a handshake. No error budget for my patience here.
Domainers will say they provide liquidity. Fine. But liquidity for whom? Not for people who actually want to build things. The liquidity is for other domainers. It's a speculative asset class parasitic on namespace scarcity.
I blameless postmortem my own failed searches: 47 domains checked, 0 available, 41 parked, 6 "make offer." Average offer response: $8,400. Project now named with a hyphen and a number. Transparency: I am bitter.
However, the domainer itself provides a market function. Without liquidity provision, good names would be lost to abandoned projects. Kindly consider that small projects can use alternative TLDs also.
The "use it or lose it" tax proposal is interesting. But who decides "use"? A parked page with ads is technically use. The enforcement cost would be high only.
SWEdish perspective: our government tried something similar with.se domains. FIAsco. Bureaucrats defining "use" killed legitimate Hösting companies holding defensives. THE system itself collapsed under appeals.
Fika break now, my blood pressure needs it
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