Re: Piping, redirection and shellscipts: 3/5/2025 7pm Eastern Standard time

Rev Anon wrote on 2025-03-11 16:10:

> But how does domain-squatting get confused with rent-seeking?

If I get a list of the most-common family names and a bunch of common 
words, register them as domains for ~$20 each and try to resell them for 
$2000, then I have generated no value, I've merely inserted myself 
between the buyer and seller.

That's how "domaining" is like rent-seeking.


> They're my domains, my invention

In the example above, I've invented nothing except a process that adds 
cost but no value to the domains. aka rent seeking.


> if I quit paying the rent, they
> become available to someone else and I lose them forever.
And as long as you pay the registration, you're preventing someone who 
might use the domains to generate some form of value from doing so. At 
least at that domain.


TL;DR:

I register anon.com and wait for Rev Anon to decide they want email at 
[email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected].

I charge $1000 for the domain.

My family name is not Anon.



I'm up >$900, You're out $1000, and I've created nothing.


Hence, one could call it rent seeking behaviour.