Barry, Lots of companies have tried #1. The registrants are burdoned with too much to make this happen effectively. Besides, the average registrant does not know who to trust even if they wanted to do so. Ask a registrant if they know who afternic is or Buy Domains. Less than 1% will know them as a viable option (which they are, just lacking mindshare) Now a reseller channel that touches over 4 million registrants...that's MINDSHARE!! ;-)
#2 is current state. We firmly believe that a market that uses loop holes to amass hundreds of registrar threads, take up hundred of man hours at ICANN to accredit shell registrars hoping for a quick 20~30K a month without actually being a real operational registrar is not an efficient market. I don't remember if we posted Ross and Elliot's "manifesto" regarding this market and the opportunities that lie ahead but you really should have a read, (http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2004/9/3/135064.html) it helps to put things in perspective and makes for deeper and more meaningful debate on the topic. I drank the Kool-Aid and I like it ;0) James On 9/7/04 10:46 PM, "Barry W Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Auction the name before it expires, or simply let them > go back into the open pool of available names. James M Woods Product Manager -TLDs Tucows Inc. 416 538 5453
