Re: Tucows to Launch Auction Service for Expiring Domain Names

From: Michael Dean (michaelldean@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 11:32:39 EDT


well, quite frankly, I have a bunch of names to auction off, but ebay
buyers are the pits. If they can do this, I would like to know how much
we would get back.

Ross Wm. Rader wrote:

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> On 07/09/2004 12:14 PM Loren Stocker noted that;
> | Hummm, interesting approach.
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> | 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;)
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> | In contrast, if they go to the pool then the former Registrant is no
> longer a
> | party to this transaction. There is absolutely no reason they should
> benefit.
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> I'd have to agree with the analysis above. If the names drop, then this
> would be just another take on the secondary market. The Tucows auction
> service as well as the global objectives outlined in "Perfect
> Information" (http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2004/9/3/135064.html)
> are meant to explore the market for names that are about to expire but
> haven't yet. Re-registrations, as you point out, are an entirely
> different matter.
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