RE: [ga] WLS

["Roberto Gaetano" <ploki_xyz@hotmail.com>]

Jeff Field wrote:

>
>In the stock market you have some people that buy and sell stocks as an
>investment and others that buy and sell stocks on pure speculation.  The
>first group are called, "investors"; the second group, "speculators".  But
>investors and speculators are simply subsets of the more broad terms,
>"buyers" and "sellers".
>
>In regards to domain names, IMHO, *way* too much emphasis has been placed 
>on
>trying to make the distinction between a "consumer" and a "speculator".
>Both are simply members of the more broad term, "registrant".  The basic
>question that needs answering regarding WLS is whether or not "registrants"
>will be harmed.
>

There are two type of people who buy tickets for performing arts or sport 
events, spectators and scalpers, but they both belong to the same category 
of "buyers".
In fact, for some events, some theaters or stadiums may refuse to sell more 
than a certain number of tickets to the same person: implicitely, they 
acknowledge that there is a difference.
IMHO, to ignore the difference between "consumers" and "speculators" is only 
in the interest of the speculators.

Regards
Roberto

P.S.: Stock markets are regulated, although the regulation differs from 
place to place. In many regulations the speculation is discouraged by the 
supervising bodies. The major difference is that, while in stock markets the 
speculation can push shares up or down, and therefore can be detrimental to 
single enterprises, and therefore there is an incentive to regulate the 
matter, for domain names the speculators can only work in the (short term 
economical) interest of the registration bodies, and the only people that 
have interest in limiting the speculation are the final "users" of the 
names.


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