Re: [registrars] DomainRegistry.com response to ICANN - Verisign

[Larry Erlich <erlich@domainregistry.com>]

Ross is correct about this. And what
this means is that Verisign Registrar, with
their near-zero cost, could warehouse trillions
of names. 

Limited only by disk space as they say.

Larry Erlich

http://www.DomainRegistry.com


Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> 
> > At 09:52 AM 4/2/01 -0400, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> >
> > >There are no ICANN policies concerning warehousing.
> >
> > Dear Ross:  I think there are.
> 
> II.D.2.ii only refers to the concept that the Registrar agrees that an
> anti-warehousing clause would be an appropriate consensus policy for ICANN
> to adopt and include in the Registrar agreement. It doesn't actually specify
> that anti-warehousing *is* a policy.
> 
> > There is certainly one in the new
> > proposal
> > to Verisign.
> 
> Hadn't seen it, but then again, I probably reviewed the documents as quickly
> as everyone else ;)
> 
> >
> > Q:  Do you think there should *not* be a rule against warehousing?
> >
> 
> Not at all. As with anything, it would have to depend on the actual wording
> of the policy itself, but I have no problems with the general concept of a
> policy that specifically excluded warehousing as appropriate behavior...
> 
> -rwr

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