Sounds more fair to me than what we have now, and the load on the registry
would be many orders of magnitude less. The number of times a desirable,
soon-to-drop, domain name is currently queried per second must be in the
thousands. This because there is monetary incentive to be there at exactly
the right millisecond (and no penalty for being there at the wrong
millisecond).
If you don't like my idea, propose a creative alternative. I'm open to
suggestions.
> CH> Earlier I suggested a solution which would remove all incentive for
> CH> hammering the registry. Drop any name, at any time of the day or
night, but
> CH> wait until it has been 5 minutes (or some other appropriate delay)
since
> CH> anyone has tried to register it. Everyone would have an equal chance,
and
> CH> those who try too often would never be rewarded.
>
> Dawning black-hat (or is it grey?): I want supercoolname, so I check
> on it every 4 minutes for a couple of months. By that time everyone
> else that wanted it has gone home. Then at 3 a.m. I don't check for 5
> minutes and then grab it. This results in a lot of needless checks
> against the registrar/registry and I get my name. I can play these
> sorts of games somewhat anonymously through many different registrars.
>
> regards,
> -joe
