[ga] Re: [icann-delete] Proposal: Registry Re-circulation System

[Larry Erlich <erlich@DomainRegistry.com>]

I don't know about anyone else but I can't
easily tell the "embedded" responses from
the original document.

Larry Erlich


Ron Wiener wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> The level-headed discussion approach is so refreshing - thank you.  A few
> responses embedded below.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Girard [mailto:peter_girard@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 3:06 PM
> To: Ron Wiener; icann-delete@total.confusion.net
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [icann-delete] Proposal: Registry Re-circulation System
> 
> Hello Ron,
> I think you misread the Afternic RRS proposal, confusing some elements with
> Afternic's previously published pre-delete solution. (Mea culpa, we've got
> multiple balls in the air.)
> It must have been a remnant from your last draft.  It's right on page one of
> the RRS proposal document.
> To your first point, RRS does not require this permission. I know Chuck
> Gomes has weighed in with a landlord analogy with which I agree, concerning
> the right of the registry to resell deleted names. And that's what these
> are--post-deletes. To sell pre-deletes at any time, the registrant must
> become the de facto seller. Policy experts seem clear on this (same for 1b).
> But as a post-delete proposal, the RRS suggests neither contacting
> former-registrants nor selling names in a limited window (ie. 45-day grace
> period).
> Let's assume it is post-delete, then, and current registrant's permission is
> not required.  (I still would like to understand though, would you employ a
> XFER command or DEL command?)
> What is to prevent a registrar who does not want to participate from running
> his own auction on his inventory of post-delete names?  This, in fact, is
> what several registrars have either been starting to do or have been testing
> with the intention of rolling out their own systems shortly.  In so doing
> they in effect anoint themselves as a "non-accredited registry" for a
> portion of the market represented by no more than the names they themselves
> currently have under management, and they exclude competition from other
> registrars for these names.
> In other words, any system which relies upon the cooperation of a registrar

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