Re:And? (Score 1)

Additionally, some have mentioned web "spammers" (no such thing, in legal terms). Most of the ones I know tend to use .infos, which can still be had for around 80 cents a pop per year. I am a registrar, and I get my .coms at 6 bucks a piece. I could get them cheaper, but I would have to do more volume. Maybe someday. I sell my .coms at a much lower margin than a lot of the big registrars. It's pretty common to find $9.99 per year .coms, but I sell them for between 6.70-7.50. Depends on the time of year or if I'm having a sale. Also we do volume discounts with our larger customers (usually resellers). Raising the cost of domains won't fight web "spam". Mostly the trend right now is to use parasite hosting (e.g. free, someone else's domain, free blogs etc) and leach off their authority. The answer begins with Google really. It's in Google's best interest to keep *some* web spam around, as it tends to make the company an awful lot of money (Made For Adsense pages are semi-legitimate, as they are still taking the surfer to what he or she wants to find, and up until just recently, they've made Google an absolute mountain of money).