Re: [ga] WLS proposal

[George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

--- James Love <james.love@cptech.org> wrote:
> 2.  Over a period of 30 days, any person who wants to register the
> expired
> domain can express an interest.

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> 4.  If the original domain owner has not reactivated the domain
> during the
> 30 day period, the domain is assigned by lottery to one of the
> parties
> seeking the domain.

Impractical for the following reasons:

1) Lotteries are highly regulated and illegal in many cases.

2) Nothing prevents folks from assuming millions of identities for the
purpose of increasing their odds, thus "gaming" the lottery, assuming
there is no cost to the lottery. If there is a non-refundable cost to
the lottery, see #1.

In reality, the current system isn't broken. Prove it's broken, before
trying to create solutions to a problem that doesn't exist. The Status
Quo, perhaps with a uniform deletions policy to stop Verisign registrar
from hoarding domains, works better than any of the proposals made to
date. 

The problem "Verisign isn't making enough money off expired domains"
isn't a good enough reason, nor a real problem, to change the Status
Quo. $6/name is more than enough to meet their contractual obligations
of managing a central database. Oracle or IBM, among others, would
surely be up to the job if they aren't.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/

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