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

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Wed Aug 15 19:49:54 2007


On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:29 PM, John Levine wrote:

So, if they charged a $ 1 "return fee," they would either 

It needn't even be that much.  Bob Parsons of Godaddy has proposed
that the 22 cent ICANN fee be non-refundable, an approach that has the
advantage that it removes any incentive by registrars or registries to
encourage tasting so they can keep the penalty money.

That would mean the return fee would be 0.22 plus whatever the registry added to it, which would be fine by me.


The .ORG registry asked last year for permission to charge 5 cents per
deletion to any registrar that deletes more than 90% of their
registrations.

I don't like that so much. Complications invite gaming the system.

Regards
Marshall

The ICANN board approved it last November, so we
should be able to get some actual data about what difference it made,
although I am unable to find any reports on the PIR web site more
recent than last October.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex- Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.