the #1 filter here is, IMHO, the kitchen table test. how would you want
your mom's service provider to treat her?
sorry for being brief, but I am just back from vacation and am digging
out. please dig in at length.
Regards
Chuck Hatcher wrote:
>>Loren Stocker wrote:
>>
>>...
>>However, I'm troubled by one thing: can't the Registrant just sell the
>>domain
>>at anytime DURING the years they have it? Why cut them in at the end?....
>>unless this these domain never go to the pool;)
>>...
>
>
> If you accept the notion that the only fair way to determine who should get
> an expired domain name next is to make them pay something near its fair
> market value, then who gets the money? The answer depends on who you ask.
>
> One line of reasoning is to treat expired domain names like tax-delinquent
> real estate. Generally when real estate is sold at auction in a foreclosure
> situation, once the taxes or loans plus interest, fees, and expenses are
> paid, the former owner gets any money that's left.
>
> Verisign's plan for expired domain names would result in Verisign reaping
> most of the profit. Pool's plan results in Pool and their registrar
> partners sharing the profits. Some might say the money should go to a fund
> to feed hungry children. It's easy to find fault with all these plans, but
> what would you do? (And please don't say you like it just the way it is! We
> are spawning new registrars by the hundreds, most of which have no intention
> of providing registration services.)
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