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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by acdha on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:20AM (#23770758)
I’d like some combination of both: increase the base price (or scale it with the number of domains owned by a single entity?) but have some kind of grace period based on the time you’ve held it where you accrue a charge with interest (to prevent squatters abusing it) but can get it back quickly if you pay in full.

If a business screws up, paying a few grand in late fees is much better than losing it to a squatter and that can protect users from someone malicious buying a domain used by an app or something.

Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by greyhair on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:27AM (#23770834)
I like your idea of having a time period based on how long you've continually held it, in a paid up fashion.

But even that should be capped to some reasonable time scale, like 90 to 120 days.

Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by acdha on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:21PM (#23773314)
Definitely — the main thing I was thinking is that this could be a great value add for a particular registrar focused on businesses. Bake in time and money so they could do something like send registered mail or something to an address on contact in addition to emails.