Very few if any of the proposals to save Vsgn from their
general greed and incompetence seem to have considered
the impact on the end user of their solutions.
1. Once it is established that registries/registrars own the
rights to the intrinsic value of domain names, it is only a matter
of time before we just drop all the charades (who came up with that
ridiculus $6.00 registry fee and competition amongst registrars anyway?)
and allow the central registry to charge whatever they think it
is worth for a given name - and the registrars can either pay it or not.
who cares about registrars anyway.
2. By putting a lock on the rights to an expired name at the registry
level, all pressure will be shifted to one of the lower levels. (either
the
registrar for that name or the current registrant). In other words, if I
suspect
that a given name may expire, I want it, and joe speculator already has
dibs on it at the registry level, I will either
a. approch the current registrar with a more lucrative offer than
they have currently from the registry to see if thereis some way
they can just kind of accidentally not drop it, and somehow in
the
process the name winds up registered to e (or are we going to
dis-allow transfers of nams which are currently on the waiting
list?)
b. attempt to contact the current registrant. ( I wonder how any
emails
from speculators the average name registrant wants per day?)
3. Verisigns proposal in particular attempts to sell this cash grab
to the end user by suggesting that a registrant can get put on the
waiting
list for a name they already own (at a cost of >= $40 ) in case of
accidental deletion of their name,. this is to be construed as a type
of insurance (against verigns incompetence and failure to uphold their
end of the contract?) And they want the registrant to pay THEM for this?
sheesh! (this would be the only conceivable benefit to the end user
anyway)
In any case, eliminating competiton at the registry level (even if by
auction-
see PS)
just insures that those who want the name badly enough will find a way
to
ensure that the WLS never gets invoked. So for the truly valuable names,
the WLS will be worthless, and if those names are removed from the
process
we won't need the WLS anyway. And I suspect that a LOT of the pressure
will
go towards the registrars - of course none of them would succumb - would
they?
John
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PS - Those who cannot/will not beat the current bid price and therefore
cannot/will not compete define the process as not being open to all,
and therefore not competitive in this sense. (a massacre of the term
competitive I know, but hey- makes a much sense as any of these
proposals I've seen to date.)
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