More information on the domain tasting report public comment period please

["Tim Triche" <tim.triche@xxxxxxxxx>]

When a registrar (such as NSI) does 'domain tasting' themselves, in order to
lock-in searchers to their own, more expensive registrar services, the
practice effectively breaks the entire competitive registration system.  One
cannot obtain information about a desired domain name through Network
Solutions without implicitly locking-in to their registrar services.  Given
that a 4-5 day lockup period may mean losing the domain name and business
opportunity forever, this sort of egregious misbehavior on NSI's part is
doubly shameful.

As usual, NSI reveals their own morals to be at least as poor as those who
squat on domains for fun and profit, and due to the implicit trust placed in
a registrar (via the whois mechanism), they're actually a bit worse.  This
practice is abhorrent in the context of an open network addressing system
and should not be permitted; registrars who engage in such conduct should no
longer be permitted to act as registrars at all!

It is primarily due to this sort of continued misbehavior, along with the
exorbitant pricing structure at Network Solutions, that I long ago switched
all of my domains to Joker.com, and I have never for one moment looked
back.  The competitive registrar framework was partly a result of NSI
misbehavior to begin with; thankfully, it provides a mechanism to prevent
further misbehavior by removing the profit motive.