[hit send too quickly]........although I would ad that whether Verisign
(or Neustar or Bell/RBOC) played the jingle or some open-market
participant played the jingle I would feel the same way about the jingle.
George Kirikos wrote:
>Hi Elliot,
>
>--- elliot noss <enoss@tucows.com> wrote:
>
>
>>This is EXACTLY what the secondary market participants are doing
>>right
>>now. The secondary market has evolved well away from buying names for
>>resale (although this certainly does happen and in large numbers) and
>>towards capturing large pools of names and monetizing the latent
>>traffic. The traffic occurs from either misspellings or from names
>>that
>>used to have traffic and/or inbound links and were not renewed.
>>
>>
>
>The big difference, though, is that those secondary market participants
>are:
>
>1. Actually PAYING for the domain name: Verisign registry proposes they
>get EVERY unregistered domain name for FREE.
>2. Subject to UDRP. By not registering the domains, Verisign registry
>isn't subject to UDRP.
>
>When you misdial a 1-800 number, does Neustar or your phone company
>play a jingle for your competitors?
>
>Sincerely,
>
>George Kirikos
>http://www.kirikos.com/
>
>
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