Re: [alac] Board Meeting

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:17 PM 10/15/2006, John L wrote:
> > >   * Discussion of New Proposed Registry Service by PIR - Excess 
> > > Deletion Fee
> > <http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/PIR_request.pdf>
> > Looks like a response to the domain tasting by charging a fee for 
> > add-grace deletes.
>
> Registrars that cancel over 90% of new registrations in .ORG would 
> have to pay 5 cents per cancelled domain.  On page 11 of this 
> document it says "Recently PIR raised the proposal with members of 
> ALAC, but there has been no feedback from ALAC."
>
> Does anyone recall this discussion?

I never heard from anyone at PIR, though I agree it's a step better 
than nothing.

>   I don't.  It seems like a good idea to me, both reducing the 
> instability from speculative name churn and starting to recover the 
> costs.  If it were me, I'd be a dollar if you cancel more than 10%, 
> but I'll take what I can get.
>
> R's,
> John

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