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I do expect my property to be reassigned if I don't pay my property taxes. Eternal ownership allows those who had power and money in the past to continue to have that power indefinitely, and is very detrimental to society.


That should be minimized as long as a limited number of domains per person (excluding legal entities) are allowed in a limited number of tlds.

Your property is both relatively scarce, limited, and requires significant service compared to random domains on some random tld.


Domains may not experience scarcity per se, but desirableness quickly falls of as the strings get more random.

Everyone would love to have a three- or four-letter domain but, like land, they're not making new characters for the ASCII alphabet.


We could restrict those too. Any desirable length, words, numbers, etc, could just be treated like normal domains.


If property prices always go up, in theory you could just finance the property to pay the taxes indefinitely


bad analogy. in effect you never own a TLD so its not a tax on ownership.




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