Good idea or not: freecycle for domain names

On the other hand, I have no idea how you'd stop domain parkers from actually using the service to get domains for free. With freecycle itself, it's probably quite hard to hide that you're abusing it to make cash on ebay or something, but I don't know how you'd prevent that with non-physical goods.

I've let a few expire, and a few I've "given" to charity by hosting something for them.

Question: how do you handle multiple people wanting it?

* First come first serve

* "Bid" => money to charities

* Fight to the death

Just let them expire and whoever wants to use them will (in theory) be able register them from. I.e., when you let them expire they will go back into the pool.

I say "in theory" because of the possibility that domain name registrars will "taste" them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting and/or do something else to "grab" them and sell or auction them to the highest bidder in whatever marketplace they can expose the names to. Other downside is a domain name speculator will acquire and the the same. All this begs a debate on "right and wrong," which is a whole other topic.