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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Carl Karsten wrote: > > 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? > > Not just that, they want registrars to take a revenue cut. > > I am assuming that > A. a registrar would get less business being "less forgiving" than others. > B. a registrar gets revenue from tasted domains that taste good. I think the policy change would most likely be at the ICANN level or perhaps at the registry level. I got the impression that the current policy 'loophole' was at the registry or ICANN level already. So, this would probably > > I see no finical incentive for a registrar to change their policy. > because they are often part of the tasting ... so they don't want to cut off their revenue stream, which in no way touches grandma-jones and her typo'd domain purchase, fyi.
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