>I mean if a name is available to use, you can just use it. There's no negotiation, no price barrier, nothing.
How is that different in domain names? If the name is available, you buy it and use it. And the "price barrier" for domain names was less than filing incorporation paperwork, in my state anyway.
>I think most of my frustration is toward the domain squatting/reselling industry.
At least with domain names you can negotiate with someone. If someone else registers a company name before you, good luck. Same situation, look up the registered members and try to talk them into giving it to you, I guess?
