At 1/4/02 7:14 PM, William X Walsh wrote: >See, this is the argument that makes the least sense to me. Verisign >can solve the technical problem here (and it is a strictly TECHNICAL >PROBLEM), but rather than solve the problem their poor system design >has created, they are trying to use the problem to justify a way for >them to add a new profit center.
Okay, well, how should they solve it, then? If you have an idea, I'd love to hear it (and I'm not being sarcastic). I honestly don't think it's solvable -- there is a virtually infinite demand for some names, and the registry/registrars/resellers can't supply virtually infinite connection resources. It's the same problem that landrush/sunrise periods hoped to solve with new TLD introduction, and a whole bunch of smart people have tried various schemes. I think we can all agree that the results of every scheme tried so far for new TLDs and com/net/org drops have been disasters. So, seriously: how can you sell a resource that could be worth hundreds of thousand of dollars to the general public for six dollars, and avoid crushing speculation and mysterious shenanigans? Especially since the virtual nature of the sale prevents you from limiting the applications to one per customer? I don't think it's a technical problem, but rather a human nature problem. I'd love to be proven wrong. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
