"Lee Hodgson (DomainGuideBook.com)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> A few weeks ago, there were many people offering (multiple) domain names for
> sale on the biz-ops list, including several people who are OpenSRS
> resellers - are you calling them all scum?
>
No, I'm not, and I believe that both yourself and Mark know exactly what I
meant. When I said "domain aggregators", I meant it as it's come to be
defined. People with automated "registration machines", registering ten
domains a minute from a dictionary file. People who register thousands - if
not tens of thousands - of domains, with no intention of ever using them.
In my personal opinion, people should register domains they will use, or aim
to use at some stage in the future. I can understand some people will find
themselves lumped with a domain they're not going to have time to develop,
and in that circumstance, I have no problem with them wanting to "sell" it.
But I also believe that that registrants should not be allowed "sell" their
domains for more than a nominal sum. This is how it works in 90% of the
ccTLD's, and I believe that's the way it should be. The gTLD namespace has
become a free-for-all. ICANN made a complete mess of it, and they're shortly
about to make it worse. It's embarassing.
And I find the suggestion that these aggregators are poor insulting to my
intelligence...
adam
