Hi.
At 06:10 PM 9/25/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>At 9/25/04 3:52 PM, elliot noss wrote:
>
> >factual circumstances where
> >the registrant, say my mom for example, is worse off in a situation
> >where they are the primary economic beneficiary and are not opted out?
>
>More to the point, though, you're missing the fundamental argument
>against this, which is that domain names that expire do not belong to the
>registrant, or to Tucows, or to anyone else; they belong to "the public".
>Anything a registrar does to interfere with the domain name's reversion
>to a completely unregistered state is taking unfair advantage of that
>registrar's market power (in other words, taking advantage of the
>happenstance fact that the domain name was previously registered through
>that registrar) in a way that is quite clearly not the intent of ICANN
>(and I wholeheartedly agree with ICANN on this point; larger, older
>registrars would have an obvious advantage over new registrars).
Perfect example of this is a couple of years ago I was out of the country
and inadvertently let one of my domains expire. That name was immediately
picked up by a reseller and held for 2 years. When that name expired at the
end of July, I waited until the day it was supposed to be "set free" (Sept.
6th). It is now registered with BuyDomains.com and as far as I can tell
never made it to the open market. I refused to pay $5000.00 for the name
which was the minimum bid with the previous company. I'm not going to pay a
minimum of $688.00 to over $10,000.00 now.
Now the interesting thing is, during the first year of registration with
the previous reseller of the domain I put in a reservation with
snapnames.com and paid the $90.00 or whatever it was. The name was renewed
by the reseller at the end of the year. My 1 year reservation through
snapnames.com expired, and I didn't renew, the name expired and was not
renewed. However, the name was immediately picked up by a new reseller.
Who is BuyDomains.com? Any idea? NSI?
Thanks
gib
--Gib Gilbertson Jr. Tierramiga Info Systems 619-287-8647 Support http://www.tmisnet.com San Diego's "Friendly ISP"
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