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I don't mind it, it's harder for squatters to control the name you want and if your product/service takes off eventually you just buy the quality TLDs as desired. So many people now just follow links through search, mobile apps, social media posts (etc) vs. typing them in, so having a mint TLD is becoming less important.

Recently I wanted a domain and a squatter was firm on $8k, basically just ignored the sales tactics and after some digging found the same name at an equally great TLD for ~$250.

Overall it's a win, domain squatters will start to realize they're trying to control an increasingly infinite space and those of us doing work on a budget have some leverage to not support their gouging behavior.




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