Re: [nc-org] Price discrimination

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

This is, if I may so, 'silly'. If we are doing things on the marketing
level, it is not very reasonable to 'punish' on the consumer level.

M.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, at 14:44 [=GMT-0500], Milton Mueller wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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