Jorge Amodio wrote:
Domains should have no value,
This is not practical. A name is part of an identity, a company name, a personal name or whatever. We simply cannot escape that fact. The natural tendency is to pull this logic into the domain name space. There is no harm in another "Jorge" also living. There is harm in another "Jorge" trying to stop you using your name, or demanding you pay a premium for using that name above another. Just so if there is another party fraudulently claiming to be "Jorge", your identity and using your address, and committing fraud using your name. That is identity theft in addition to the fraud the scammer or whatever is trying to commit using your name. Likewise if you have a company "Jorge Inc" and somebody else registers "Jorge Inc Online" and abuses your good name and the goodwill you built up in your client base for their own monetary or fraudulent purposes. We simply cannot deny the value of a domain name, not directly as a $10 virtual purchase, but definitely indirectly in terms of harm. Derek