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so... uh... you didn't register google.com fast enough and now you want to have a discussion about how it's really owned by everyone and google should be paying rent to you?

i'm actually not trying to be a snot about this, it's just the extreme version of what i view geoism applied to domain names would end up as. if you had a link to an online discussion, that would be cool. probably out of scope for this post, but still sort of interesting.

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Well, I'm no expert on Georgism, but the idea is that it incentivizes landowners to either sell or develop the land. So, for domain names, the idea would be similar: determine (in some way, to be determined) when a domain isn't being used, and then charge a fee that prevents squatting.

A big part of Georgian is that land value can be impacted by nearby land development. Domains do not have nearby neighbors. At best, it gains some coincidental value by sharing a name with some shortlived fad.

That being said, you wouldn't look for squatting and then charge a fee. You would evaluate every domain name and change a fee accordingly. Even non-squatted land can be underdeveloped.

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