<story><title>Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)</title><url>https://www.gandi.net/en-US/domain/tld/io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aimor</author><text>My thought is to require all domains be sold for the same set price (or at least constant for each TLD). If someone wants to register 1,000 domains let them, but don&amp;#x27;t allow them to profit off that. If someone breaks the rule, revoke the domain. I&amp;#x27;d like to hear reasons why this is a bad idea so I can stop thinking about it every time I get priced out.</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>How do we create an incentive model that kills the “parked domain” industry without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site?&lt;p&gt;At first glance I was happy to see the headline because it means it’ll be more expensive for squatters to profit, but then I do sympathize with people using these domains for legitimate non-commercial purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;d like to hear reasons why this is a bad idea&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. It is practically impossible to enforce. Maybe exactly the right amount of money changed hands in one transaction, but how do you know there were no other related transactions perhaps via anonymous crypto transfers or entirely off-net (the good &amp;#x27;ol brown envelope full of cash) or by non-monetary exchange (service rendered).&lt;p&gt;2. It punishes the final buyer, so the scalper in the middle doesn&amp;#x27;t care. It may put buyers off so reduce the competition and the prices scalpers can command, but it won&amp;#x27;t stop them completely. For every scalper that decides it isn&amp;#x27;t worth bothering because profits are down 50% (figure plucked from thin air) there will be a queue of smaller fish more than happy to take the remaining margin.&lt;p&gt;Look into attempts that have been made to control big-name concert tickets and how they have all failed - the problem is essentially the same here.</text></comment>
<story><title>Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)</title><url>https://www.gandi.net/en-US/domain/tld/io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aimor</author><text>My thought is to require all domains be sold for the same set price (or at least constant for each TLD). If someone wants to register 1,000 domains let them, but don&amp;#x27;t allow them to profit off that. If someone breaks the rule, revoke the domain. I&amp;#x27;d like to hear reasons why this is a bad idea so I can stop thinking about it every time I get priced out.</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>How do we create an incentive model that kills the “parked domain” industry without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site?&lt;p&gt;At first glance I was happy to see the headline because it means it’ll be more expensive for squatters to profit, but then I do sympathize with people using these domains for legitimate non-commercial purposes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andruby</author><text>that seems like a nightmare to check. if 100 parties want to buy a specific domain from me (say: database.io), the incentive to sugar the deal will be huge. Why wouldn&amp;#x27;t I sell it to the party that&amp;#x27;ll gift me a Tesla when I sell them the domain for the fixed price?</text></comment>