Originally Posted by KRL

Corporations have invested massive amounts of money in branding domains. You have way too much money on the table now for anything to change anytime soon.

The major threat however is not changing the domain system, but impacting it with regulations and taxation and changed cost factors.

For example it could be a disaster for domain owners under these scenarios:

1. Domains become valued on a tax appraisal system like real estate. Legislation gets passed lets say that requires domain owners to pay "property taxes" on top of their annual reg fees. Imagine the annual property tax bite on someone who has thousands of valuable domains.

2. Annual reg fees get changed from uniform fees to fees based on the estimated assessed value of the domain.

3. You are no longer allowed to own a primary domain and just sit on it and send it to a PPC type deal. All domains have to be developed into functioning sites related to the theme of the domain.

See my point? Its the politicians and the lawyers that could really make things unprofitable fast.