Re: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 11-Apr-2000 John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> And with this proposal you just move the problem one rung down. How do you
> stop someone from creating a list that will bombard the webpages or email
> addresses of registrars and selling "preregistrations" in that list?

First come first served.  What people do independent of the Registry or
Registrar is not our concern.  Our concern is preventing this unsavory practice
from being conducted by those who are under contract to ICANN.

Bottom line.

The fact remains that building a system to do what you say does require a
certain level of expertise.  And if the technical specs for filling out the web
based forms for registration are kept confidential by the registrars until
launch, it will go a long way towards preventing this, or delaying it
significantly.

There are also many technical means to impede the creation of those systems.  I
would be happy to expand on those privately, so as not to give lead time to
those on this list who would be responsible for creating systems to circumvent
it (yes there are domain speculators in our midst  :).

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