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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Marshall Eubanks <[email protected]> wrote: >On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > >> >> I was just struck by a couple of statistics: >> >> [snip] >> >> In January 2007, according to PIR five registrars deleted 1,773,910 >> domain >> names during the grace period and retained 10,862. That same month, >> VeriSign reported that among top ten registrars, 95% of all >> deleted .COM >> and .Net domain names were the result of domain tasting. > > >So, if they charged a $ 1 "return fee," they would either > >- produce revenues of several million USD per month (unlikely) or >- cut domain tasting by about 2 orders of magnitude. ... or both. I think I could live with that, all things being equal. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGwSaBq1pz9mNUZTMRAoxDAKCUZ8s/Q/tRF6NC0T7jC6SRFy1zVACgplR4 NZVluA1bG+T0JiZuZrsrVGQ= =Ey48 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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