I am getting message doubles. Anyone else?
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> From: "adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:49:20 -0000
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: .web, .nom, .shop, ...
>
> "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
>
>
