John and all, John Gaskill wrote: > Michael, > > You wrote: > > > Responding to John Gaskill's wish for prepayment > > for all to stop abuses by the few: > > I don't believe that the problems of abuse are caused > by just a "few." Do you have substantiated evidence to the contrary? If so I am sure that the readers of this list would be very interested in seeing that evidence. If not, than estimates are fine, but are certainly not substantiated in any meaningful way, and therefore are for the most part FUD. > > > > There can be many reasons for delays in payment, > > e.g. error prone info gathering by the ISP (do you think > > the sales staff at the larger ISP's are all punctilious), > > problems with postal delivery, confusing responses > > from NSI ... Registrants with little or no expereience > > or limited budgets are going to run into the most > > problems with this. > > If 1/3 of NSI's volume is scrapped for non-payment, > that is a sizable chunk. Yes, and that is a BIG IF. > An average US company > could not survive with a payment loss of 30-33% > on their total sales. It would kill them flat out. Sure would in most cases, hence why I don't believe the 30-33% figure in this case either. More FUD perhaps?? > > > > So you may be asking to pre-pay to step into a > > quagmire not of the registrants making. > > Pre-pay on large volume request might be one > > answer, (large == ??? > 20 ???). Also a higher > > fee after the 2nd or 3rd mailing e.g., add $5 if not > > paid w/in 30 days, $5 more for $60, ... something like that. > > Your suggestion of a higher fee for later mailings directly > contradicts your desire to help diversify the 'net and > serve those with limited budgets. Agreed. And this seems also to be the direction of the ICANN as well. > > > It does however, work to the advantage of domain name > speculators who only pay if they get a fish on the hook. > It makes no difference to them to pay an extra $5 or $10 > on the one name they pay for out of the many (100's, > 1,000's) they register and don't pay for. Even if they are not paid for they will either go on hold and eventually will be recycled back into the pool, so to speak. As such there is no real harm done here that is relevant to the customer base. > > > > There are many environments that the potential > > registrants come from and one-size-response > >requirements doesn't allow for the diversity that > > creates differing legitimate needs. > > > > Michael > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Though registrants may come from many > different environments, if they can raise the > money to play on the internet, they should > be able to come up with $35 for one domain > name. > > John Gaskill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
