RE: [alac] Re: Domain Monetization Background

[Sebastián Ricciardi <sricciardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let´s focus on the USER concerns:

a) Domain monetization is happening. Does anyone has the numbers? (i.e.
domains registered in add grace period, total domains registered,
registrations lifetime, etc?

b) Is this practice affecting the availability of domains to the public? If
so, how?

I´m concerned about driving our discussion to the registry/registrar
business practices and concerns, instead of the practical impact for the end
user.

Best,

Sebastian

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De: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx] En nombre de John L
Enviado el: Lunes, 21 de Agosto de 2006 08:16 p.m.
Para: Bret Fausett
CC: ALAC
Asunto: Re: [alac] Re: Domain Monetization Background

> I've also been told by registrars that the .ORG objection to the practice
is
> being pushed by Afilias, the .ORG back-end, which does not have as robust
an
> infrastructure as Verisign and is less able to handle the load.

Yes, one of the Afilias guys was complaining about how much new stuff they 
had to put in their data center.  As far as I can tell, this has reduced 
their gross margins from about 99% to 98.5% so my sympathy is limited.

> The registries that can handle it, Neustar and Verisign, don't really 
> object because it leads to more registrations...at least for now.

As I said, I don't see why the speculators wouldn't just cancel them all 
and take their chances unless a domain got a vast amount of traffic.  The 
domains are all pretty much random anyway.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.


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