As you sound quite reasonable and self-aware, can you explain your rationale more? I have difficult understanding it.
I had the exact same idea as this company and I'm sure thousands of others did as well. The goal wasn't to make money (though that's obviously a pleasant aside), but to fix something that, from my perspective, is very broken. Our current DNS system entails you paying an ever-increasing and perpetual rent to a company for them to do literally nothing. You are paying them to not remove your name from a database, which is less work on their part than deleting it would be. That's seems just so dysfunctional and exploitative.
And just to also make sure we're on the same page here - when this company distributes your domain, they no longer own it in any way, shape, or form. Even if they wanted to go scummy and swap back to our current model (perhaps after gaining large marketshare), they'd be literally unable to - because they do not control, in any way, these domains once they are distributed.
I had the exact same idea as this company and I'm sure thousands of others did as well. The goal wasn't to make money (though that's obviously a pleasant aside), but to fix something that, from my perspective, is very broken. Our current DNS system entails you paying an ever-increasing and perpetual rent to a company for them to do literally nothing. You are paying them to not remove your name from a database, which is less work on their part than deleting it would be. That's seems just so dysfunctional and exploitative.
And just to also make sure we're on the same page here - when this company distributes your domain, they no longer own it in any way, shape, or form. Even if they wanted to go scummy and swap back to our current model (perhaps after gaining large marketshare), they'd be literally unable to - because they do not control, in any way, these domains once they are distributed.