O.k. I think we are on the same page when it comes to the A.E. We are just seeing it from different perspective.
First, let me say that what the AE represents to me is free market. Not just a free market that someone tells you is a free market, and then manipulates the value of the market currency, or implies involuntary risks to your assets, (taxing you to fund bailouts), or legislates transaction customs.....ETC. But a truly free market. You or I or anyone alive has never seen or had the benefit of a free market in the sense of the free market that NXT has the potential to be. We have the chance to make it so. Maybe someday this NXT thread on Bitcoin forum will be in a archive some where and people will look back at it as a transcript for a convention of the start of something truly great.
Secondly, as I stated above, I think we see sort of eye to eye on a lot of the fundamentals of NXT, and that the differences regarding this topic are simple communication issues (as most differences are.)
That being said, the reason I think your Ideas on this topic are wrong is that they impose upon the Idea of NXT as a free market; and the problems that they are intended to solve won't be solved by their implementation.
First of I will argue the point you made about squatting. I do think that this is going to happen. People will use the opportunity to purchase domain names and profit by selling them. This may seem kind of ugly, and base, and put a smudgy appearance on the AE, but things like this are a part of a free market. Your line of thought that a 1000 nxt fee will prevent this is flawed in the sense that it assumes people who have the means to pay higher fees are above capitalizing on this opportunity to profit. People will still buy as many names as they can, and still demand the highest price for their sale that the market will bare; but the starting price is automatically going to be more than 1000 NXT, and their will be fewer people holding more in demand domain names, as entry level competition for the names will have been restricted by a price that wasn't dictated by the market. There is going to be a rat race for domain names; a low fee makes it a more fair, more inclusive and more attractive race to get into. No one will pay CRAZY prices to buy a domain name. They will pay what they feel it is worth.
Secondly, restricting the AE's use to traditional assets is a violation of free market fundamentals and limits the ways the AE can be used and by whom it can be used by. This will limit the total usability and usage of the AE and make it a less versatile tool. The only restrictions that should be imposed are the ones that are needed for the secure functionality of the AE. If these functional and security restraints don't restrict an asset that is not a traditional asset from being traded, there should be no "sent from above" restriction applied that would limit the market. If the functional and security restraints don't limit the ways in which people can conduct commerce freely amongst themselves. There should be no such restriction imposed by any person or committee of persons. This would eliminate, to a certain degree, creative and innovative uses for the AE.
Thirdly, There is no financial need in the fee being high, as the cost in registering an asset, to the system is the same as all other transaction. The High fee cost is an artificial price, and the fee will, in the highest probability, end up in the account of someone who has 50 million NXT. The effects of this are exponential, when coupled with the effects of limiting innovation and creativity.
Fourthly, as far as your comment "sell it on Ebay"
, I was invisioning more of a "Craigslist". If your Ebay suggestion was an attempt to imply that people selling things in this manor I suggested selling comic books would turn the AE in to an unmanageable, unnavigable clusterfuck, then you should brace yourself; because even if it were not used in this fashion, if it is in any way successful, The AE as it functions now is going to be a clusterfuck. And I don't think the "Tiered" system will prevent this. If the AE is going to be manageable and navigable it will have to be structured differently. High issue fees aren't by any means, structural improvements. High fees and restructuring (tiers) are two different solutions to the problem of the short comings of the functionality of the AE. The high fee solution is a market fixing, ineffectual, demographiclly exclusive, free market restrictive, quick fix bandaid, that resembles the two party government approach to problem solving. The restructuring solution, while not instantly gratifying, is a real solution. And while I do somewhat agree with the idea of the "tier" system suggestion, I don't think that in the long run, even that will be effective. (I do have some ideas regarding this, but that is another topic, the topic at hand is the fixing of issue fees).
In short, I am for this AE of ours being a free market. The first free market that anyone alive will ever have access to. So that means I am for anything that facilitates open and unrestricted trade and commerce between anyone and everyone. And I am opposed to anything that is contrary to this, including fees not set by that free market, and socialist gateways to that market, or any other constraint or restriction that is not required for the AE to function securely.
And I also feel that all of the arguments that you sited in favor of the higher fee, can be solved with restructuring the AE, and making it even more of a free market and facilitating more free trade and commerce; And this should be the area of focus, and that any future marketing strategies have this as a top consideration. The fees will do nothing to solve these problems.