[gnso-dt-wg] RE: Domain tasting in .DE

["Patrick Jones" <patrick.jones@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following email was received from Stephan Welzel at DENIC on domain
tasting in .DE.

Regards,

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Welzel/Denic [mailto:welzel@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:57 AM
To: Patrick Jones
Cc: 'Olof Nordling'
Subject: Re: Domain tasting in .DE

Hi Patrick,

Domain tasting is not an issue under .de at all because we do not have an 
Add Grace Period. Such an Add Grace Period is not needed in our case 
because we charge our members ("registrars") not yearly but monthly fees 
so that they have to pay only for a month, not a full year, if they 
register a domain name and then discover that they (or their customers) 
didn't actually want to register it.

At the same time, the monthly fee might itself make domain tasting 
attractive in a way - but apparently, people are not willing to taste high 
numbers of domain names if they have to pay any fee (however low) in the 
first place. Consequently, we don't see a significant number of domain 
names being deleted shortly after their registration.

Best,
Stephan

ppa. RA Stephan Welzel 
Chefsyndikus / General Counsel
DENIC eG

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