Re: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs

["Bret A. Fausett" <baf@fausett.com>]

Kent Crispin wrote:

> CORE has taken *no* registrations.  Period.  Zilch.  Nada. The big
> Goose egg.  Zero.  None.

Good news if true. But are you making a distinction among paid
registrations, unpaid registrations and pre-registrations? (Or is it just a
distinction between CORE and its participating member registrars?)
Nominalia, for example, takes "pre-registrations" on .web, .biz, .arts, etc.
They do so on a page bearing the logos of ICANN.

When you "pre-register" with Nominalia, you get this:

  If you application form is of preregistration
  a domain, this order is inserted into Nominalia
  Data Base. The orders of preregistration are
  sorted and added to a queue by time received
  order (first come first added).

  When a new termination becomes active (.firm,
  .shop, .web, .arts, .rec, .info, .nom ) Nominalia
  will send an e-mail to the administrative contact
  to inform him of the definitive registration
  process, prices and means of payment.

The "first come, first added" language suggests that, if it's able,
Nominalia will give preference to those registered in its database.

Forget for a minute who is doing it and who isn't, for pay or for marketing,
Chris raises a fair question. When a new TLD is launched, what happens to
these pre-registrations?

         -- Bret