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Re: [ga] Afternic Auctioning register.com expireds


Hi Eric,
 
The obvious remedy would be for ICANN to look at formlating a set policy on speculation and warehousing by the registrars themselves to quash this activity.
 
Currently, there are registrars that auction a "chase fee" to attempt to register domains as they are deleted.  They have customers before they attempt to acquire the domains and do not hold the domains in their own name looking for a buyer.
 
The proposed Afternic/register.com scenario means that afternic would be gifted the domains to auction by register.com.  This means that the auction value is simple speculation on the domains themselves and there is no scope for other registrars to sell a new domain registraiton of the same character string.
 
Also, because they would be injected with domains from register.com that were originally paid for, they would be, to all intents and purposes, warehousing the domains.
 
If all registrars are equal, then if Verisign were to adopt a similar policy using Greatdomains as the auction/sales entity then it would mean a reduction in competition and a reduction in registrations made by the other registrars that benefit from their share of deleted domain registrations.
 
As a secondary thought, if afternic held these domains for auction, couldn't they fall foul of the udrp in regard to intellectual property rights too as they would not be offering a registration service and the domains would belong to them/register.com during the auction process?
 
Regards
 
Paul Cotton
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Afternic Auctioning register.com expireds

Dear Mr. Cotton,

Would you please repost and cover the new ground of what you would like done and how the GA can help.

I actually have a techie buddy that pulls this stuff up and we all gasp and laugh at the absurdity even as names we do not renew go through this process.

If you can focus a specific remedy you will get at least some sort of consensus here.

As the burden becomes to great may you always have time to rest.

Sincerely,
Eric



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