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Re: Suspension of reissuing deleted domain names

  • From: Francois Beauregard
  • Date: Wed Jul 09 22:39:19 1997

And what do you do when the domain was not paid.... you block a potentially
ligit user from taking it over ???

At 22:06 97-07-09 -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:
>With regards the issue of prospectors trying to grab deleted domains,
>perhaps the InterNIC should use a similar policy to what the FCC uses
>for radio callsigns (amateur radio, at least): Callsigns which are
>abandoned due to change of callsign, death, or expiration of the license
>are unavailable for re-issue for two years. This allows for the previous
>owner (if not dead) to reclaim the callsign (or a relative of the
>deceased to do so). It also helps avoid identity confusion.
>
>Seems like the same rules would make sense in the domain name context,
>and would avoid problems where billing errors or other problems dealing
>with the Internic could result in loss of a domain name.


Sincerely

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