Re: [ga] FYI: WLS Vote of Transfers Task Force

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

On 21:23 26/07/02, William X Walsh said:
>A domain name is a service,

????
A domain name is an alphanumeric pointer ( a shadow) to a set of network 
entities (domain) belonging to someone.

>paid for, for a fixed period of time.

what is paid is the registration and the housing of the corresponding data 
into the Registry systems.

Some greedy people having permited to sell shadows the habit has 
developped. WLS is a system where by you rent your shadow .2 cent/hour but 
another fellow can rent it too for .5 cent an hour, but he can use it only 
if you forget to pay for it next year.

The beauty is that he cannot do anything with the DN, but he can do 
whatever he wants with the TM in case you have one (except competing with 
you) since you permitted him to potentially use it in the future, should he 
show that he  planned to do it in good faith. Whatever he does for that is OK.

NB. He can UDRP you, but you cannot UDRP him.

Obviously WLS will never happen with any serious Registry: one may sell 
domain but not domain names.

jfc


PS. Todd, do not get confuse by WXW. There is no alternative roots.

There are alternative root administrators. The most famous is ICANN.
There are global root files supported by their own root server systems: 
they support all the ICANN TLDs plus many others. Their users are in the 
same position as others irt WLS, except that they get more non WLSed TLDs.

What WXW refers to as "alternative root" are non ICANN listed TLDs. A 
difficulty some in here seem to share with him is, also, to understand that 
by nature a root service is free.

BTW you can perfecly use the net all the day long an never use any root 
server at all. What is important is not the root: it is the IP of the TLD 
nameservers. You can obtain them in different ways: the root servers system 
is one of them. It is for those who do not know the net enough, so they may 
still use it (this is because of this charity service that ICANN claims for 
tax exemption). It is late in being updated, non backed-up, non mirrored, 
using a old piece of code and can afford only 262 TLDs.