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Re:WW.com Sold in Private by joelrunyon on Thursday June 26, 2014 @03:50PM (#7951306)
Are there caps on any other purchases out there?

Should we start capping the amounts that startups can be acquired for? If FB is willing to pay 1B for Instagram, 19B for Whatsapp, or more - who's to say that they can't spend their money the way they want to?

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Re:WW.com Sold in Private by general_failure on Thursday June 26, 2014 @05:12PM (#7951594)
Well, if we start treating domain names as a public resource, then caps might start making more sense. It's like any other regulation.

AFAIK, there are regulations already for how much you can pollute your environment, usage of rivers, height of buildings, rearchitecting your house etc.

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