Re: [ga] Domain names as observed (was Tucows Response to CochettiTransfer Letter)

[Eric Dierker <eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

Dear Sotiris,

Ok not a hunting permit.

Let us try a ticket to the opera or superbowl or a membership to a Country Club.
That solves Transferability and Reselling problems.  (although keep in mind a vast
majority of ccTLD domains are non-transferable)

But, that messes up the public resource concept.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

> Eric Dierker wrote:
>
> > I cannot accept the premise that they are privately owned by Registries or
> > Registrars - except maybe in the case of a ccTLD - but then that is public in
> > most countries, hence anti-hoarding laws like our toll-free regs.
> >
> > Come to think about it maybe they are more like hunting permits.
>
> One cannot sell, lease, or otherwise transfer rights to use a hunting permit.
> Domain names are sold and re-sold, and leased, and loaned, and willed...
>

Perhaps it is like a concession to use a public resource which is transferable.
Let us remember this thread was about private versus public property.  But for sure
it is a property right of some sort.

Eric

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