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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

  • From: Steve Atkins
  • Date: Mon Aug 13 15:05:42 2007



On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote:




On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:



That's exactly the problem.... "the goal of tasting is to collect pay per click ad revenue"...

Ten years ago the internet was for porn, now it's for
MLM/Affiliate/PPC scams. As long as we put up with companies abusing
the Internet as long as they are making a buck, they'll keep doing it.

to be very clear, this 'domain tasting' (no matter if you like it or not)
is just using a 'loophole' in the policy/purchase that's there for the
safe guarding of normal folks. It just happens that you can decide within
5 days that you don't want a domain or 1 million domains...


So, to be clear folks want to make it much more difficult for
grandma-jones to return the typo'd: mygramdkids.com for mygrandkids.com
right?

If grandma-jones orders custom stationery and doesn't manage to spell her name correctly, she'll end up with misspelled stationery. The main difference is that a misspelled domain name is likely to be a much cheaper mistake than misspelled stationery.

A question to the registrars here: What fraction of legitimate
domain registrations are reversed because the customer
didn't know how to spell, and noticed that within the five
day "dictionary time"?

Cheers,
  Steve