[nc-org] Price discrimination

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>]

One of the more interesting ideas to come out 
of my consultations within NCDNHC might be 
a feasible way to help differentiate the org domain.

It was proposed to price discriminate between
people who hold the same name in .org as they
hold in .com, and perhaps also .net. 

E.g., if you register a .org name and you also hold
the identical .com string, the registry charges 
twice as much for the registration. The registrar
would have to pass that on to customers. 

It would NOT be easy to check, but at least
the check would be completely objective,
rather than potentially subjective like whether
an organization is sufficiently "noncommercial." 
I.e., either a matching string is registered by 
the same party in the other domain or it does not. 

But even this strikes me as a bit fussy. 
--MM