Hi.
At 06:10 PM 9/25/2004 -0700, you wrote:
At 9/25/04 3:52 PM, elliot noss wrote:
>factual circumstances where >the registrant, say my mom for example, is worse off in a situation >where they are the primary economic beneficiary and are not opted out?
More to the point, though, you're missing the fundamental argument against this, which is that domain names that expire do not belong to the registrant, or to Tucows, or to anyone else; they belong to "the public". Anything a registrar does to interfere with the domain name's reversion to a completely unregistered state is taking unfair advantage of that registrar's market power (in other words, taking advantage of the happenstance fact that the domain name was previously registered through that registrar) in a way that is quite clearly not the intent of ICANN (and I wholeheartedly agree with ICANN on this point; larger, older registrars would have an obvious advantage over new registrars).
Perfect example of this is a couple of years ago I was out of the country and inadvertently let one of my domains expire. That name was immediately picked up by a reseller and held for 2 years. When that name expired at the end of July, I waited until the day it was supposed to be "set free" (Sept. 6th). It is now registered with BuyDomains.com and as far as I can tell never made it to the open market. I refused to pay $5000.00 for the name which was the minimum bid with the previous company. I'm not going to pay a minimum of $688.00 to over $10,000.00 now.
Now the interesting thing is, during the first year of registration with the previous reseller of the domain I put in a reservation with snapnames.com and paid the $90.00 or whatever it was. The name was renewed by the reseller at the end of the year. My 1 year reservation through snapnames.com expired, and I didn't renew, the name expired and was not renewed. However, the name was immediately picked up by a new reseller.
Who is BuyDomains.com? Any idea? NSI?
Thanks
gib
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