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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.
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very good and valid points.. however dont underestimate the power of hte people. It werent big corporations that created the internet.. actually they adapted/took advantage of it years too late.
The users of the internet (from the tech beginners, to the tech savvy home users to the masses right now) gave big coroporations the opportunity to exploit the internet in a commercial way. I think they also have the power to take that away from them. If a new system kicks in or an interface other than the www that appeals mroe to the initial motivation why people liked the Net: i dont think billiondollar commercial budgets have much power.
Actuaklly.. i think the restrictions applied by lawyers and politics as you mentioned will take the true nature of the Net away (the free wild west) and
create opportunties for new media to take over the net as we know it.
Im really tired and fucked up.. sorry for my horrible language skills.