# Antisquatting First and foremost, a namespace must be **efficient**. What does efficiency mean? It means that a high proportion of names are owned by people who are actively using them. Ecosystems that are too value extractive will suffer a weak community, but a lesser understood counterpoint is that ecosystems which do not properly price the most valuable assets will end up with high inefficiency, captured by squatters who do nothing to further social awareness and usage of the protocol. This short-term hype is outweighed by long-term frustration of potential future users who will go elsewhere. So Clusters introduces demand-based capped recurring pricing, as proposed by Vitalik in . This mitigates malicious squatting while also providing simple longterm digital property rights guarantees for the average user. How does it work practically? * 99% of users with an uncontested name like boldleonidas/ will pay a cheap minimum price * For competitive names like defi/, users can bid on names owned by others which will increase the recurring fee. This introduces an explicit demand-based cost for squatting and squatters will be forced to sell into bids. * If a prankster decides to grief an uncontested user like foobar/ by bidding on their name, the user can accept the bid and make money, while the prankster loses lots of money. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.clusters.xyz/introduction/features/antisquatting.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.