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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
- From: Marshall Eubanks
- Date: Tue Aug 14 09:26:02 2007
On Aug 14, 2007, at 3:50 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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- -- 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
It's not uncommon for companies to not charge good customers for
minor incidental things, like fixing a
typo; I think that most would reconsider that policy if they were hit
with 8 million "minor" changes in a
day, which it seems is where we are. That has to cost something.
I haven't heard a good reason why not to do this. If IANA can't use
the money the IETF can.
Regards
Marshall
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"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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