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RE: How Much Should A Username Cost On EOS?
12 letter limit on usernames, what are they thinking? I've been programming for a long time and my experience is putting arbitrary low constraints on things always comes back to haunt you later when it's more difficult to deal with and fix. I would have considered 24 characters to be a short limit, though I probably would limit it in bytes not letters these days, assuming support for the entire Unicode character space.
Dan talks about it in a recent blog but basically he says it is a performance related thing and that he sees in the future that these will be more like a license plate and then there will be another more human readable name that can be assigned to it at a later date potentially.
But in my mind I think these are still going to be valuable.
https://medium.com/eosio/introducing-eosio-dawn-4-0-f738c552879
Given that, then getting back to your original thought about should they be free? Maybe like license plates, vanity ones should cost (I have no clue what would be correct amount) and otherwise the system you generate a random one for you. THEN it would be like license plates.
That is a pretty decent idea but the only thing I have against it is that the fact that you can have an alias for your address for BitShares, STEEM, and EOS sets them apart and is super cool. If the free one that are randomly generated and end up being something like @1yUcb2ilt78gh it would sort of defeat the purpose of having the alias.
I don't know what you mean about aliases for STEEM? (and I know even less about bitshares or EOS) do you mean your "@" address IS an alias to your STEEM crypto wallet? In which case yes you wouldn't want it too convoluted. Otherwise if you can make an alias to use instead of your "@" address I don't see why it would matter much what your address is.
If the 12 character names are derived from base-32 encoding of a 64 bit integer (as it says in the blog post you referred to) then a whole lot of people around the globe wont be able to get a good name as the characters in their alphabets wont fall within those constraints (A–Z and ten digits 0–9).
Yeah the alias is the @ and the username you have selected which is way more human readable than what the public address will be associated to the address which will look like this. EOS8BgwWgpohUXFrUAtMQUaME7yCuUVqJWwVVdmJuPjy1XZ2LUUsS