On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> At 07:07 PM 6/30/00 -0400, Chuck Hatcher wrote:
> >To make sense of this mess, lets make a distinction between NSI the
> >registrar, and NSI the registry. Most of us will agree that when a domain
> >name expires, it should be more or less promptly be returned to the pool of
> >freely available names. [...]
>
> Agreed. I would say, however, that there should be NO grace period. That
> coming from a perspective of "If people see that a domain is set to expire,
> they should be able to know, to the day, when it will be returned to the
> pool, so that any and all people have equal shot at registering the
> newly-available name, should they want to."
>
This will only work, if the expiry date disappears from whois. Or do you
want an awful lot of traffic at one moment to the registries? And as for
fairness: is it fair to have the system in such a way that people with a
lot more resources (either financially or in server power to run huge
scripting tasks) will get all the good names?
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