>I dont think using things in ways that where not considered as >necessarily abuse.
Point taken, however in this case, it is abuse. The grace period is for the cancellation of names registered fraudulently or mistakenly, nothing else. I would rather see no grace period than the level of tasting that is currently going on in the .com space. >what do you consider a reasonable cost? The same cost as a normal registration. >-- Original Message -- >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:22:53 +1000 >From: Vic Cinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [DNS] Licence Period >Reply-To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> > > >Jon Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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. > >I dont think using things in ways that where not considered as >necessarily abuse. I agree that tasting shouldnt impact performance, >but thats a trivial solution. stick tasting on a separate box >distinct from normal registrations and there is no subsidising or >penalty for normal 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. > >what do you consider a reasonable cost? > >Vic > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/
