>At 10:33 AM 6/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>The Registrar Accreditation Agreement implies a prohibition against
>>warehousing of domain names:
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>>http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-12may99.htm
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>>9. Registrar shall abide by any ICANN-adopted policy prohibiting or
>>restricting warehousing of or\ speculation in domain names by registrars.
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>That's a stretch. These are domains used for advertising.
warehouse \Ware"house`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warehoused; p. pr. & vb. n.
Warehousing.] 1. To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
2. To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be
kept until duties are paid.
Warehousing is simply the storing of merchandise, but connotes a large
quantity. Register.com has obfuscated its WHOIS service so that there is
no way to tell how many or which domain names the registrar has acquired.
Perhaps in the interest of openness and fairness, ICANN should ask all the
registrars to submit an annual list of its own domain name registrations,
else how can it determine whether warehousing is taking place. The point
of the prohibition is to prevent the registrars from using their
accreditation pricing advantage to compete with their customers.
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