Re: [ga] Re: Suspension of Voting Rights

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:38:30PM +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> Another possible form of representation would be to grant domain name 
> owners one vote per registered domain name in a totally-integrated "domian 
> name owners' constituency".

That would grant 531400 votes to netzero, inc(*), and would radically bias 
the voting.

It would also heavily weigh things even more in favor of speculators. 
(Domain name issues are of direct economic importance to speculators, so
they devote considerable energy to domain name issues.)

(*) from an email on the domain-policy list by ellen rony:

top 5 domain name holders:

NetZero, Los Gatos, CA                  531,400 (as of Jul-00)
Coventry Investment, Ltd, Miami, FL     200,425 (Jul-00)
Name Demo, New York, NY                 220,000 (Jan-00)
Market Development Corp, MD             124,450 (Jan-00)
24HourNames                             106,150 (Jan-00)
                        TOTAL:        1,182,425

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Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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