On Aug 9, 2004, at 6:02 PM, Chuck Hatcher wrote:
>> will Tucows/OpenSRS perhaps start pursuing expired
>> domains? I'd join a system that would help increase
>> my odds of getting the names I desire.
>
> You don't think it would be unseemly for Tucows to promote domain name
> speculation as a legitimate activity? (I always got the impression
> they
> viewed this kind of customer as sort of like that odd uncle the family
> doesn't like to talk about.)
>
>
I'd be willing to bet money that the big players in the drop business
are in it for "speculation" purposes. Many of them are not really that
interested in selling the domains they get in the drop. The real
speculators these days are the registrars who grab the names and then
auction them off immediately - which is what Snapnames is about to
start doing.
Although the opensrs system faired OK in the earlier days, these days
to be competitive, they would have to buy a whole bunch of registrar
connections. Just using opensrs's ones would prove to be even less
effective than Snap was in the last days prior to changing their
grabbing model. :^)
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