Auctioning of domains

[Brett Glass <brett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's astonishing to me that an auction scheme such as the one described in
recent announcements is even being CONSIDERED. Why does a registrar deserve
a windfall just because it happened to have been the place where the domain
was previously registered? (It certainly didn't provide any different service
than it would for any other domain.) Why does the former domain owner deserve
a windfall for happening to have registered a name that someone else wants or
needs? The fact that ICANN is thinking about allowing such a thing merely
demonstrates that it does NOT represent, in any way, the interests of the
users of the Internet, but rather those of large corporations, including
the big domain registrars such as Verisign.

Brett Glass