I think a small fee for .com.np (and free or .edu.np) could be levied and the money used for a trust (hopefully FOSS Nepal ;), or some fund that buys computers for people in villages.
And I think Mercantile should be thanked for providing their man-power for free to administer the domains. I think they should continue to provide the service for free and highlight their costs as donation and possibly double the donation to the foundation.... About domain reservation, .np does not seem to be a big market to make money out of it. This sort of domain trading does occur from time to time, consider the case of pizza.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7331042.stm ----------- I think entrepreneurship should be encouraged and if somebody is willing to take the risk and get hold of some domains if they can make a profit later, let them... http://www3.cnn.com/2007/TECH/biztech/07/23/domain.name.dealing.ap/index.html If you say that you can not trade domain names then why would you let people buy land and then expect to make a profit selling then later, or for that matter buy IT companies, or bank shares or whatever... ----------- Fortunately there are laws now that prevent this kind of thing from happening where people hijack your company name. I couldn't find the exact reference right now but I know in many countries they now have a law where a random person can not register for a domain that is known to be of a company and then later try to sell the domain to that company... ------------ Anyway, let's hope mercantile can satisfy everyone and still provide the domain registration services or perhaps better taken over by someone else who is not a company.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
