Raise the price of domains!

[eq78]

WOW what a wombat you are (Waste Of Money Brains And Time) Industry the internet is not an industry ass clown it is a network of interconnected computers. There are many industries that came from the inception of the "commercial internet."

First off who the f appointed you as to what was a contribution?
2 you are the typical I want a quality generic domain but someone won't sell it to me for $50.
3 Acroplex asked you what you have done? You answered what other companies are doing.
4the most frequent reason worldwide people use the internet is to find porn, to jerk off so I guess you have something in common with them with this thread.
5 What would make the internet different than real world maybe somebody thinks you have no style no fashion sense you are not contributing to society from an aestic sense, maybe they think your house looks like shit and throw you out in the street.
6 Most importantly in the grand scheme of everything what you think does not matter and what you are hoping for will not come about to see the light.
7 Get a clue while you are writing the Domainers Communist Manifesto

 

[Shaggy]

Sure, business is business. My point is not that I am angry they are overpricing the domains.

My point is simply that those who register massive amounts of domains simply to park and hold onto them are slowing down the development of the web.

How are names that are being held by other domainers effecting information on the net? Like someone said here earkier in the thread, its not the name that makes the site, its the content of that site that makes the site. Do you think YouTube.com, Google.com, Wikipedia.org, Myspace.com, Facebook.com, and so on, are names that are premium if they didn't have the content they had on them? The internet is no way effected by what we do. There are all kinds of names that are available out there that can become a informational website, its just how its developed and promoted, not the domain itself. So what you are saying has no relavence to making the internet a better place.

 

[eq78]

12% of all websites are pornographic
25% of all search engine requests are pornographic
35% of all Internet downloads are pornographic in nature
Every second 28258 Internet users are viewing pornography
Every second $ 89.00 are spent on Internet porn
Every day 266 new porn sites appear on the Internet
Sex is the most searched word on the Internet
U.S. Revenue from Internet porn in 2006 $ 2.84 Billion
72% of Internet porn users are men
28% of Internet porn users are women
70% of Internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-5 workday
There are an estimated 372 Million porn web pages
3% produced by the UK
4% produced by Germany
89% produced by the US
Most trafficked adult website: Adultfriendfinder.com
Countries that ban pornography: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Kenya, India, Cuba, China
Most visited websites daily:
1. MSN.com: 220 Million visits
4. Youtube.com: 196 Million visits
49. Adultfriendfinder.com: 7.2 Million visits
145. Nytimes.com: 4.1 Million visits


I don't own any adult domains so I guess I am not contributing to the growth of the internet

 

[DNWizardX9]

Thanks bud, you are the epitome of a true professional. Grow up.

Why are you a premium member on a DOMAIN Forum?

 

[hugegrowth]

A few points this thread makes me think of:

1) As you get older, you realize it's worth fighting for the things you can change, and not to waste time on the things you can't. Let's face it, a proposal to see domain registration fees at $100 to $500 is an impossibility, and even if they were that high, it wouldn't make a 'better' internet, and would actually price out lower income people from ever owning a domain and, therefore, a website. It's a very naive idea that likely comes from a younger person. There are better causes out there to spend time on.

2) This whole idea of moving towards a 'better' internet. Let's face it again, as was pointed out above, a significant percentage of internet sites and activity is related to sex, dating, personals, porn, etc. The internet isn't this great thing that's going to lead us anywhere, it's just a reflection of society. Good and bad, and in between. Doing Overture searches for keywords and seeing what kind of terms rank high is like looking into the soul of the world - and it isn't always pretty.

 

[Gerry]

I don't own any adult domains so I guess I am not contributing to the growth of the internet

slacker

as was pointed out above, a significant percentage of internet sites and activity is related to sex, dating, personals, porn, etc.

Does this mean that seeing they are really the only ones profiting from the internet that they would be the only ones able to afford domain names?

 

[Seraphim]

Raise the price of domains! Domainers who register massive amounts of domains and simply park or hold onto the domain in hopes of someone acquiring the domain are depreciating the quality of the internet. The wealth of services and information that is the internet is being bottlenecked because of this.

I say, jack the price of domains up to $100-$500/year and we will soon see some more quality material on the internet.

Hahaha... $500 dollar reg fees... and the following day the whole world wide web gets buried in free mynewcheaperdomain.wordpress.com, quality at it's finest. I guess the domain my Uncle purchased to host photos of his 2 month old daughter just got shit canned.

whydna, let me guess, you just awoke from a 30 year coma, and are wandering drunk through the streets of Moscow as we speak?

 

[Raider]

Good point, I can see it now;

DONT PAY $500 to Register a Domain!!!

WHEN YOU CAN RENT YOUR DOMAIN TODAY!!! @ OnBorrowedTime.com

IMAGINE OWNING A DOMAIN LIKE THIS: mydomain.OnBorrowedTime.com

For ONLY $99.99!!!, That's a $400.01 SAVINGS PER YEAR!.....ACT NOW!!​

 

[eq78]

Exactly Shaggy a great domain is not needed, great content is. These people always act like "Oh I had a great idea for Cartoons.com but the owner wants $2 million he is hurting the internet by parking that domain and earning an income for his family." When in reality what they are saying is I want a valuable domain that gets type in traffic for cheap. So I can make the money. Because you got a great idea that revolves around Cartoons, create your own funny brand, or Cartoons360 or CartoonMedia, etc...
Your idea can still come to fruition, no creativity is prevented from being unveiled to the world.

 

[HomerJ]

Hi, There is a vacant lot right next to my rowhouse that I want. I have a great idea for that vacant lot, but some old lady owns and it has been in her family forever. In fact this old lady owns vacant lots all over town...it is not fair. I asked this old lady if she would sell the vacant lot (next to my rowhouse) to me and SHE WANTS WAY MORE THAN SHE INITIALLY PAID FOR IT!!!!! can you believe it.

I propose we raise the taxes so she cannot afford to keep all of her lots...This way I may be able to get the lot and not pay her asking price.

that useless bitch! :upset: she is really slowing the growth of your town.

 

[jazzpetals]

I don't think you understand the debate at hand here. The issue is not removing domaining industry, but to remove parked and dead domains. If you are going to enter an industry to make a few dollars, then at least put a little back into it - put some relevant information or quality content onto your sites.

Don't you realize that parking IS part of the domain industry?

 

[H2FC]

Raise the price of domains! Domainers who register massive amounts of domains and simply park or hold onto the domain in hopes of someone acquiring the domain are depreciating the quality of the internet. The wealth of services and information that is the internet is being bottlenecked because of this.

I say, jack the price of domains up to $100-$500/year and we will soon see some more quality material on the internet.

The internet and domain name industry are operating under the free enterprise system....have you heard of that? To jack the price of domains up as you suggest would fall under the heading of price fixing....last I heard that is illegal.....and I hope it stays that way.

 

[Theo]

HurtingTheInternet.com was *once* registered. Any takers please cough up your $8 fee and leave a $492 tip to Bob Parsons please.

 

[Seraphim]

Imagine shopping for shoes online, and having to run through a list of 50,000 possible shoe shop domains to find what you're looking for. whydna seems to think that quality content is a genie that just pops out of bottle any time you're short on wishes. Search engines are self serving gateways to information, but anyone that has browsed Google lately, knows that all those quality Mom and Pop shops have been replaced by corporations serving the masses quantity over quality.

While we're at it, let's jack up the lease prices on buildings around each global city, so only companies like McDonald's can continue to lead and innovate on what percentage of a cheeseburger actually has to contain real meat.

Somewhere between an $8 and a $500 a year domain, is the great plateau of Western economic mechanisms. whydna, who obviously fashions himself after David Copperfield, would like us all to hold his hand as he climbs towards the summit of an ant hill.

 

[HomerJ]

that's right h2fc, i would also add that setting artificial price floors and ceilings is generally detrimental to a free market economy. wherever supply and demand meet that is equilibrium. like in agricultural industry, when the government steps in to subsidize and set price floors on commodities it usually benefits big agri-business and hurts the smaller family farms.

whydna, if you are worried about the quality of the internet your biggest fear should be that it doesnt wind up heavily consolidated into the hands of the few, like radio, (clear channel) television, (disney) and newspaper (murdoch, sam zell, etc.) industrys have already become.

but i have my doubts that you are even returning to this thread