RE: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs

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

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On 17-Apr-2000 Paul Stahura wrote:
> There is a pent-up demand for domains in the new TLD's.
> I don't think there is an argument about that.
> There is no way you can "outlaw" this demand.
> I do not see any problem with registrars building queues
> of names that their customers would like to register
> as soon as they are able to.  A round-robbin scheme
> on day one of a new TLD will ensure fairness.
> On the days before day-one of the release of a new tld
> you will have registrars "pre-registering" names,
> even if it is just one name.
> 
> There is no way to stop it, that I can see.  

Certainly there is. If a registry or registrar participates in that activity,
they could lose their registry and/or their accreditation.

And purely for identification purposes, I just wanted to point out that
Enom.com is a CORE member registrar.  

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