Once again (unless I've missed it somewhere) Tucows announces a service to be launched soon with only the most cursory details. Is there no more information available than the couple of paragraphs on the following page?
https://rrc.tucows.com/wholesale_services/domain_names/domain_auction/ Questions (while everyone else debates ethics, and whether or not people will be paid in Monopoly money): 1. What are the financial details? What are Tucows fees for holding the auction, what does the reseller get, and what does the registrant get? 2. Will the auction also be linked to from some central clearing house or is it solely up to the reseller to market the auction? 3. What control over pricing does the registrant and/or the reseller have? Are there opening bid levels, reserve prices, etc.? In the case where a registrant chooses to participate, does the registrant then hase complete pricing control? 4. What is the duration of an auction and will there be multiple auctions held if a domain goes unsold? 5. What will be required of the reseller to participate in an auction? Will it be a process that can be completely automated? 6. The above page mentions Tucows providing "reports on the latency traffic associated with an expired domain". Will these reports be made available publicly, or only to the registrant and reseller? 7. The mention of latency traffic reports would seem to hint at a time period between domain expiration and the domain auction. How long will that be? 8. For (the vast majority) of domains that will generate zero auction interest, how long will this whole process take to play out? That is, how long after expiring will most domains take to go back into the available pool? _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
