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>nobody can afford to buy thousands of storefronts //

For sure. But plenty of people (hidden behind corporations) have bought up 10s of store-fronts.

If domain names cost $500 per year to keep from the registry then this would find an equivalence in a piece of real-estate being taxed at around 40x the annual rent per year.



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