The fact is that such services will always exist. Either they exist
where ANYONE can be a customer of their service, or they exist as
homegrown solutions in the hands of the largest speculators and domain
registrants. There are at least a dozen on this list who had their own
tools for that, even before the shared registration system made it
easier to develop such systems. Many of them had large companies
already as clients, who they "farmed out" their automated systems to.
And at least in this system the general public still has a fighting
chance to get the domains, because the services ALL use the SAME systems
available to any other registrar to try to get the domains. This is
not a system where GoDaddy gets the exclusive right to sell domains
deleted by them, or where Tucows gets that right, etc. They ALL fight
for the registrations of all the same domains. There are no guarantees,
and its subject to competitive market conditions.
There is no way to "regulate" out those services. They will exist
either in public or private form, and by them existing in public form,
it makes it much more accessible to general members of the public
instead of just the elite who could do it themselves and would exist
outside of any regulation anyway.
So the choice really is whether to have such a service available in a
competitive market environment or a non-competitive one. You claim to
want neither, well that just isn't going to happen is not realistic. So
either you join the fight to defend the one that is the better of the
two choices, or you choose to sit on the sidelines and thus through
inaction help Verisign further their monopoly services.
You don't have to like EITHER choice to realize which one is preferable,
and to support the effort George brought to this list. All it takes is
realizing that the alternative is NOT preferable.
Your "ideal" is just something that will not happen.
On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 12:33, Technical Support wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "domainwhiz" <domainwhiz@yahoo.com>
> To: "Technical Support" <support@xeotech.co.uk>
> Cc: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 7:05 PM
> Subject: Re: GoDaddy: "We adamantly oppose .." blah blah blah blah
> .... ;-)
>
> Hi there Wiz,
>
> > Was there anything at all salient in your message?
>
> Now that depends whether you are able to read between lines... which
> I'm not sure you can, or for that matter did.
> > Maybe you don't understand that the alternative to independent
> competing
> > deleted domain registration services is that Verisign runs the
> ENTIRE
> > show on registering domains for a period of time after they are
> deleted.
>
>
> On the contrary, I understand perfectly both the method, its
> execution, and its
> madness. My objection is to 'automated deleted registration
> services' in their
> entirety, and the poor intransigent philosophy that drives them.
> > Ask yourself which you prefer, where anyone, including yourself, can
> > develop a service to offer to the public in competing for these
> registrations
>
> In answer to your rhetorical question, the answer is an emphatic
> neither. I
> don't intend to develop such a service, nor do I see the reason or
> logic
> behind using one. You are all just perpetuating the myth, and the
> problem
> by doing so.
>
> > and where the price point to the customer is subject to competitive
> market
> > situations, or Verisign running it all, and there being no
> competitive pressures
> > at all.
>
> Sorry, there are other pressures that could be brought rather
> than jumping on
> the jolly old bandwagon. like a lot of sheep. I, as it happens, do
> not belong
> to genus Ovis; never have, and never will! ;-)
>
> > Now maybe you understand the issue a bit more, as well as George's
> posts.
>
> As previously stated, I do understand, but I don't agree. What is it
> you find so
> difficult to comprehend here?
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Chris.
-- domainwhiz <domainwhiz@yahoo.com>
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