Re[2]: [wg-c] straw poll -- reminder

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

Thursday, August 19, 1999, 3:39:23 PM, John Charles Broomfield <jbroom@manta.outremer.com> wrote:


> No, it's not too pessimistic. It's actually the result of speculation based
> on the fact that up to now getting a com/net/org domain was free for the
> first 3 months (*). This is why there are many sectors that advocate for
> prepayment.
> You don't have that problem in ".fr" because the registrar is responsible
> for payment, so he doesn't just go ahead and registrar whatever a client
> throws at him.
> Presuming pre-payment is enforced, the speculation should die down quite a
> lot. NSI had up to now been saying that they had a 30% non-collection rate.
> My guess is that this spectacular shoot over the last few months in amount
> of registrations has also a spectacular shoot in the non-collection rate as
> more and more people have seen names go for cash...
> If people want to speculate, then they'll have to pay...
> I don't see that any worse than having people pay the trademark office of
> their respective countries for the registrations that they do there...

Too bad NSI chose to impose a grossly prejudicial prepayment policy
instead of a responsible one that would of better met the needs of
all.



--
William X. Walsh - DSo Internet Services
Email: william@dso.net  Fax:(209) 671-7934
Editor of http://www.dnspolicy.com/

(IDNO MEMBER)
Support the Cyberspace Association, the 
constituency of Individual Domain Name Owners 
http://www.idno.org