George Kirikos wrote: > > No it's not -- if NSI takes this "precedent" and stops deleting expired > names (and instead does backroom deals to pass them to their preferred > partners), it hurts a lot of people, including resellers and customers. > It's not OpenSRS' name to be handing out -- it should be deleted to > make the name available at any registrar.
Why? Anyone can register with OpenSRS... why not try and grab some of the pie instead of giving it all to SnapNames? > Bad assumption. This changes the power balance between registrars and > registrants. Ultimately, if registrars have total control over expired > names, you can be sure that they'll milk them for all they're worth. If > you don't believe this to be true, I'll make this public offer: I believe that Tucows is interested in their resellers succeeding while profiting on the side. I don't believe that they would charge an excessive premium, if a premium at all. > -- I get personal access to all expired names from all registrars, for > $10 name. > > Would any registrar, if they had the power to make such a deal, take > it? Of course not. Why should it be me, and not someone else that gets > that privilege? $$$$$ will eventually decide it, unless one makes sure > that the registrar has no part of it, except to force them all to > delete expired names. I'm sure if NSI was doing this say with UltSearch > or DomainCollection or another top drop market participant, folks would > be up in arms. I think that you're looking at this differently than I. I think it would be a FCFS system for all resellers... click a button and you get a list of all Tucows domains coming up for deleting in the next 10 days. Submit your request now. Or perhaps randomize all applications. I don't know... I'm just saying we shouldn't be judging a product that, as far as we know, is still just a widget. > No one, including the registrar, owns premium expired domains, although > lots of people would want them. They need to be released to the open > pool via a deletion, and then folks can compete for them at the 2 pm > drops. The registry, in theory owns (or at least manages for ICANN) all domain names. > It would be an anti-trust matter, I'm sure, if NSI tried such a thing, > to take control over all expired names. Under your model, they need not > even sell them to 3rd parties -- they can keep them for themselves if > they so decided. Sure, why not? If they want to spend the money to pay the registry for each one, that's their perogative. > While we're giving registrars more power, under your model, why limit > it to the above? Say you own abc.com, and are paying $35/yr. The > registrar decides they won't let you renew any further and instead at > expiry they "move in" to the vacant property themselves. This would > lead to the dot-TV style of pricing for registrations. If they want to > do that, fine, just don't do it with an established registry which has > established rules and investments. Make a .greed TLD and let the > registrars do whatever they want with it. Leave .com/net/org to those > who are playing by the current rules. I don't think that would be an issue with OpenSRS. And given that other registrars must allow transfers, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't affect other facets of the business by this move. -kb -- Kris Benson ABC Communications +1 (250)612-5270 x14 +1 (888)235-1174 x14
