I was just poking around looking at some domains today, and checked in on the .com version of this site. I know it's been squatted on for some time, and I'm always shocked at how much money they're asking for it. Who else is going to want that domain but me, and who do they really expect is going to pay $7088 for it? That's crazy.
Is there no way we can fairly determine who is squatting on a domain and make them stop? There's this whole (I'll call it) black market of people selling domains that they're not going to use for anything except to extort money from people who could put them to good use. Apart from BuyDomains.com, there's that awful site Sedo.com, that encourages regular people to do the same thing. It's horrible. I have a very low opinion of people that make money this way.
There should be an alternate registrar that disallows this behavior. You should be able to point their DNS servers, and it'll serve you the address that better applies to that domain. For example, if I've registered asymptomatic.net with the regular servers, and my site is deemed to be neither squatter or spammer, then you'd see my site. If I then register asymptomatic.com with this alternate service, they would evaluate the best use of the .com domain - whether it be the existing squatting site or a mirror of my .net content - and then serve the IP address of the server they deem best....
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