It's not going to end. Verisign was allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.<p>Edited: in more detail from thread[0] last year:<p>[0]<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292348" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292348</a>
Is there a price level that would noticably reduce the prevalence of namesquatting? Maybe at $100 or $1000?<p>Is there a price level at which the nerds say "fuck this" and create new domain roots without ICANN?
Honest question, are people outside the domain squatter economy (squatters and their customers) actually paying for .com domains?<p>I’ve never been able to secure a .com for a project, they are all squatted and being sold at a massive (like 1000x+) markup.
Two of the websites I use everyday do not even require a domain name. I just use the IP address. With the rise of shared hosting especially driven by added costs of https, it's not possible to use IP address with most sites today but it's sure nice to be free from the ICANN DNS cartel and to not have to run DNS software. Before long, I have the addresses memorised. I never try to memorise them, it just happens automatically after a while. Reminds me of how we memorise phone numbers.