&quot;Squatting on domains and making people who want to legitimately use the domains &quot;<p>Everytime someone trots out that squatter argument they assume that if the person who owned it that wants to sell it &quot;for ill gotten gains&quot;  hadn&#x27;t gotten to the domain first, that it would have been sitting around for them at the point they needed it for their idea. In 2015 or in 2005.<p>So, for arguments sake, if PG had wanted to use &quot;Yc.com&quot; instead of Ycombinator.com in 2005, the domain yc.com would just be sitting waiting for him to use at a cost of $NOMINAL_OR_AFFORDABLE because NOBODY ELSE would have used it for their &quot;bake sale website&quot;.