The grace period is designed to give registrars the ability to cancel fraudulent and mistaken registrations. It is not designed to allow for the testing of traffic figures on particular domain names, especially where no cost is incurred by doing so. It's abusive in the sense that it's an activity that is not within the scope of the design of the registrar system. I have no problem with anyone making money from registering domain names. I do have a problem where the cost of that activity is being subsidising by other registrants.
If there were a cost associated with domain tasting (ie for those names that are not retained), then it would cease to be an abuse. Clear enough this time? Jon >-- Original Message -- >From: "Vic Cinc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:00:16 +1000 >Subject: Re: [DNS] Licence Period >Reply-To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jon Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 7:21 PM >Subject: Re: [DNS] Licence Period > > >> It's an abuse of the system. >> >> If someone wants to take the risk and register a name they think will >> attract >> traffic, I have no problem with that. >> >> Tasting however removes the risk as the domain can be deleted within the >> grace period at no cost if it doesn't have the desired level of traffic. > >you are not explaining yourself clearly. exactly how is finding out if a > >domain >has traffic and removing risk, an abuse of the system? surely thats a smart > >thing to do? > >do you buy a business without looking a the books? do you buy a painting > >without checking that its authentic? > >how is eliminating risk abusive? > >Vic > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/
