Sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth.
Everyone has the opportunity to make an offer to a current owner of a domain, I don't think anyone here would argue they shouldn't - I certainly wouldn't.
But that's a lot different than a registrar grabbing every name that is registered with them that expires, then tasting the name (parking it to see if it's profitable), or evaluating it for obvious commercial value and keeping it for themselves if they like it.
I think the only cost to the registrar is the 20 cents they pay ICANN, since they are the registrar (in other words they're not even paying 6 or 7 bucks like you or I).
This is a rigged game that's anti-competitive, IMHO.
The fact that no registrar representative is chiming in on this thread that's been stickied for a few weeks should tell you pretty clearly that they sure don't want to talk about it in public -- because it's indefensible.
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