I'm pretty new in this game, but this "race" you are talking about is why
things were shut down for a while, eh? So snapnames has a liscense to
slam the root server more often than any other company? Nice. Or not.
IMO, and from my limited POV, this is promoting what we don't want to
happen, which is that one company has more priveledges when it comes to
trying for names. Also, if there is this "service" available from
OpenSRS, why would someone want to use one of OpenSRS' customers, unless
the name isn't taken? Is there a possibility that the people who are
waiting for a name will go use snapnames at NSI or etc? Am I way off
base here, or confused in some way? In other words, snapnames has
superscripts that will try and try again for names faster than the rest
of the world, and is allowed more connections than the rest of us are?
How much did that cost? (: If I have any clue about this at all, I just
have to say that I hope it cost a pretty penny, because 49 bucks a year
is a lot to pay for a name you may or may not get.
Just asking questions,
Cindy
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Cameron Powell wrote:
> Mr. Petoskey suggests that registrars should return domains to availability
> 40 days after expiration. This would change only the timing of deletes,
> but nothing else. It would not affect the existence of the race for the
> deleting names; it would do nothing to decrease people's desire to
> back-order names in advance - something only SnapNames offers; and the
> relative success of SnapNames versus others would not change at all. Please
> let me know if I've misunderstood this question.
>
>
> Cameron Powell
> VP of Business Development and General Counsel
> SnapNames
> 115 NW First Avenue
> Suite 300
> Portland, OR 97209
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> Connecting Registrars and their Customers to the Secondary Market in Domain
> Names
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