RE: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs

["Paul Stahura" <stahura@enom.com>]

There is a pent-up demand for domains in the new TLD's.
I don't think there is an argument about that.
There is no way you can "outlaw" this demand.
I do not see any problem with registrars building queues
of names that their customers would like to register
as soon as they are able to.  A round-robbin scheme
on day one of a new TLD will ensure fairness.
On the days before day-one of the release of a new tld
you will have registrars "pre-registering" names,
even if it is just one name.

There is no way to stop it, that I can see.  
A registrar's "pre-registration" queue may
only be one name in length.  
Is ICANN to outlaw registrar business models?

That said, I do not support registrars "pre-registering" names for a fee
because there is no guarentee that the person "pre-registering" the
name will actually get (register) the name.  Registrants should only
be charged if the registrar actually registeres the name at the registry.

Regards
Paul Stahura

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:33 PM
> To: John Charles Broomfield
> Cc: wg-c@dnso.org; kent@songbird.com
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs
> 
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> On 11-Apr-2000 John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> > And with this proposal you just move the problem one rung 
> down. How do you
> > stop someone from creating a list that will bombard the 
> webpages or email
> > addresses of registrars and selling "preregistrations" in that list?
> 
> First come first served.  What people do independent of the 
> Registry or
> Registrar is not our concern.  Our concern is preventing this 
> unsavory practice
> from being conducted by those who are under contract to ICANN.
> 
> Bottom line.
> 
> The fact remains that building a system to do what you say 
> does require a
> certain level of expertise.  And if the technical specs for 
> filling out the web
> based forms for registration are kept confidential by the 
> registrars until
> launch, it will go a long way towards preventing this, or delaying it
> significantly.
> 
> There are also many technical means to impede the creation of 
> those systems.  I
> would be happy to expand on those privately, so as not to 
> give lead time to
> those on this list who would be responsible for creating 
> systems to circumvent
> it (yes there are domain speculators in our midst  :).
> 
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