[ga] Re: Mr Weiner "Educates" us......

[William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>]

Monday, Monday, January 07, 2002, 8:59:06 PM, Harold Whiting wrote:
>>> 1. If you are requiring the permission of the former registrant
> in
>>> order for the auction to "close"...
>>>
>>> a. ...are you not then in effect alerting him or her to the fact
> that
>>> their name may have some value, and encouraging them to renew
> rather than
>>> allow the name to expire?  This may be a brilliant scheme
> for goosing up
>>> renewal rates, but how does it help registrars and registries
> gain any
>>> upside that they would presumably only enjoy if the name
> actually changed
>>> hands?

> Are you implying that it is more advantageous to create a "new"
> registrant rather than retain the current one?  Is this a mindset
> you REALLY want Registrars to have?  Encourage "Domain
> Abandonment" over Renewals?

That truly is one of the most bothersome factors in any of these
deleted domain proposals, that they create a situation where the
Registry and Registry both benefit financially from getting a customer
to NOT renew their domain, and this is also one of the strongest
arguments against any scheme where the Registry and/or Registrars
benefit with a financial premium of any kind for marketing domains
that have been left to expire.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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