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I imagine this is trolling, but nonetheless: it's not so much about it being unfair, as it being horribly inefficient. It's a completely arbitrarily defined market over which we (strictly, ICANN) have total control. In your central market the only person who stands to lose out from any inefficiency is the owner of the property, who could get more money by selling it to you, if you truly could make more money from it than they could. In this market anyone can buy a new domain name, so it's not unfair, but the rules of the market have been defined such that people profit from it without providing any value. I'm not complaining about it, I'm merely suggesting that it's an opportunity to increase market efficiency - it's not a trivial problem but our current solutions to it seem very poor. A service, for example, that would hunt out truly great domain names for a particular purpose, buy them and then sell them on at a profit having helped the purchaser find them would be providing great value, but if the process is "search for your own domain name and then purchase it from whoever previously thought of it", it's a bit disappointing.

I'm amazed that this provocative title hasn't thrown up any discussion about the truly broken part of this system - the fact that people who buy and sell domains with no intention of ever using them even exist. It's a modern day tragedy of the commons - a public resource that anyone lacking a moral compass can profit from at the expense of the people who actually want to produce something valuable with it.

I'm on a T-series running ubuntu and it's the best machine I've ever owned. It's fast, reliable, has 6 hours of battery and it's taken a serious kicking and still works perfectly.

It's irritating that they won't sell them without windows, but at least they're guaranteed compatible.