David,
This is getting bizarreer by the day.
In message <000001be679b$a6791ee0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Schutt" writes:
> Registering a domain and servicing said domain are separate
> issues. The first is purchasing the rights to control a piece of the
> relevant name space, the second is a purchase of an ongoing service
> that incurs recurring costs. There can even be different
> organizations selling and servicing, one a registration authority
> and the other a service provider.
What makes you think that one can "purchase" a domain name? Or that
you need to "purchase" rights to control your own name space?
In case you didn't know, like most of the contributors to this debate
don't seem to, the Internet is a network of "NETWORKS". In other words
you connect your OWN network to some others. And ONLY for the
technical side of this was the Domain Name System developed.
Nothing more, nothing less.
> There is precedent for this, that is the way the root has been
> handled. The only difference is that the transfer of rights to the
> namespace was done without exchanging money.
This is nonsense. There has never, ever, been a transfer of
rights. Postel was running around with a notebook in the beginning,
then one registry and now only because of the growth are we looking
at shared registries.
And, of course because there is money in it, it's actually obscene how
much money one can make from doing nothing (annual fee for not
deleting an entry), the registrars have developed a feeding frenzies.
Personally I think registrars are parasites, but as long as anyone has
a choice between registering directly (which requires some capacity
building) or through a registrar ($$$) I couldn't give a dead rat's
fuzzy behind (Who wrote that quote?).
> How are the rights to a portion of a namespace valued? Well, its
> based on utility. I can sell you rights in the .doofus domain, but I
> doubt that you would pay very much for them, as the utility is
> pretty low. This is not true, however, of the legacy namespace, as
> the universal use of the space means that it has a high utility, and
> considerable value. The shenanigans that people go through to lay
> claim to a piece of that space are an illustration of that utility,
> and of the perceived value.
That's something totally different. Of course you can sell the rights
to your domaim. You just don't have to purchase it in the first place.
>
> David Schutt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owner-Domain-Policy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of James Santagata
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 8:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Privacy of Domain Registration Information
>
> <snip>
>
> 1) Anyone should be able own a DN (not for free, but by purchasing it)
> 2) Putting the asset into service, should not be a requisite of ownership,
> but an option available to the owner.
>
> <snip>
>
> Once the DN is purchased, it should be designated by the registry as
> reserved. The fee that you pay to the registry handles these costs.
>
> If the DN owner later decides to have it serviced, they then pay the
> recurring fee to enable this service, as required by the registry.
>
> <snip>
el
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