This post is about an academic report I just read, on how to restore imbalances of monopolies and rentiers in Australia through various legislation and taxation reform.
So why am I posting this... domains get a mention!
They recommend $100/year registrations to encourage active development and reduce large land bank holdings of domains.
Shame that they make the sweeping generalisation of using the term "cyber squatter".
To me that phase describes someone who registers a domain of another company/trademark/person, with intention to resell it directly to that entity.
"Domain investor" would perhaps be more appropriate for the majority, who are acquiring generic search and keyword domains, that can be repurposed for many different situations.
Anyway, the whole document is an interesting read.
Two of their best arguments about real estate (i.e. that I personally tend to agree with if implemented correctly) are
- limit negative gearing to brand new housing stock
- introduce a broad based land tax instead of stamp duties on real estate sales to smooth out the fluctuations in annual state government revenues, based on volume of property sales activity, and to make it easier for people to move (i.e. reduce transactional costs when buying and selling your home)
(for more active debate along this line of thinking, go to http://www.macrobusiness.com.au)
So... what do they say about domains?
Here is the full excerpt starting page 38 from
http://www.prosper.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/TRRA_2013_final.pdf
I replaced the two people named in the report with their [initials], out of courtesy to them both.
So why am I posting this... domains get a mention!
They recommend $100/year registrations to encourage active development and reduce large land bank holdings of domains.
Shame that they make the sweeping generalisation of using the term "cyber squatter".
To me that phase describes someone who registers a domain of another company/trademark/person, with intention to resell it directly to that entity.
"Domain investor" would perhaps be more appropriate for the majority, who are acquiring generic search and keyword domains, that can be repurposed for many different situations.
Anyway, the whole document is an interesting read.
Two of their best arguments about real estate (i.e. that I personally tend to agree with if implemented correctly) are
- limit negative gearing to brand new housing stock
- introduce a broad based land tax instead of stamp duties on real estate sales to smooth out the fluctuations in annual state government revenues, based on volume of property sales activity, and to make it easier for people to move (i.e. reduce transactional costs when buying and selling your home)
(for more active debate along this line of thinking, go to http://www.macrobusiness.com.au)
So... what do they say about domains?
Here is the full excerpt starting page 38 from
http://www.prosper.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/TRRA_2013_final.pdf
I replaced the two people named in the report with their [initials], out of courtesy to them both.
