RE: [ga] WLS referred to the DNSO; WLS & competition

["Hugh Blair" <hblair@hotfootmail.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Thomas Roessler
> 
> Here's one possible argument which hasn't come up, yet, I think.   
> Maybe my thinking is flawed - if so, please point it out. 
> 
> Consider any registrar who has hoarded expired domain names.  Such a 
> registrar could wait for WLS subscriptions being made through it.   
> Once a WLS subscription for a hoarded domain name is there, the  
> domain could be relased - and immediately re-registered through the  
> same registrar, due to the WLS subscription.  If a WLS subscription 
> is made through a different registrar, nothing happens.
> 
> Rumor of this could be expected to quickly spread in the community:  
> If you want to back-order a domain name which has expired, but is  
> not available, go to the old registrar for your WLS subscription.
> 
> 
> Ultimately, this approach to selling off hoarded domain names (which 
> would be economically quite attractive at least to Verisign, and - 
> at sufficiently high WLS prices - possibly also for other  
> registrars) could lead to a _significant_ increase in the cost for  
> registering an expired domain.  It would also skew competition  
> between registrars as far as registrations of these domains are  
> concerned - effectively, potential registrants would be forced to go 
> to the "old" registrar.

The only one that will make any serious money from this is NSI. They
control the WLS process and resell it to other registrars. The 
compitetion at the 2nd level will probably force their markup to $10
or less. Remember, NSI will get around $35 per DN. And NSI controls
all the COM/ORG/NET names. They are only resold through others.
 
> The conclusion from this scenario is to hold up WLS until the  
> hoarding problem has been solved.

Which would be forever. Hoarding will never stop. Not at the registrar
level, not at he end-user level. So if this stops WLS then that's good.

-Hugh
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