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RE: [alac] Re: Domain Monetization Background

  • To: Sebastián Ricciardi <sricciardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [alac] Re: Domain Monetization Background
  • From: Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:03:13 -0400

At 01:43 PM 8/22/2006, Sebastián Ricciardi wrote:

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?

Name Intelligence has been posting statistics daily to the ICANNwiki, <http://www.icannwiki.org/Domain_Statistics>. On a daily basis, about 1.2 million .com domains are added, and about 1.2 million are deleted (the numbers are much lower in the other gTLDs). Nearly 3/4 of all the .com domains that have ever been registered are currently in "deleted" status, more than 153,000,000 domains were at one time registered, but are not currently -- making them likely fodder for the "tasters."



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

I've heard from several individuals who tried to register names, either new names or variations on their company's name, only to find them cycling through the add-drop-re-add loop. It further seems to me not to benefit the public to have this constantly shifting set of adpages posted at low cost to their posters.


ICANN created a policy with a loophole. That loophole is being exploited in unexpected ways that are harmful to the use experience of the ordinary Internet user. ICANN should close the loophole.

--Wendy

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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
http://www.chillingeffects.org/






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