Re: [gnso-ff-pdp-may08] DTeam - framework for proposal

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> ...
> entities). Making the ICANN fee non-refundable destroys those
> economics, and has very little collateral damage (and that collateral
> damage was mitigated by allowing registrars to continue to have some
> free domains up to a certain threshhold during the add-grace period,
> to detect credit card fraud, etc.).
> ...
To my chagrin, I used to think that also. Now I have the problem that in 
a reseller-model, it is wicked difficult for the registrar (holding all 
dependent account state) to know when the threshold has been met, and 
therefore whether the buy can be reversed without cost to the registrar 
(and the post-threshold dependent accounts). Therefore the ability to 
price a transaction accurately is reduced, and the safe price one that 
assumes no redemption.
Had I been smarter than I am, I would have made that point before this 
PDP was adopted.
This is for a registrar with zero tasting, and the standing assertion, 
so nicely stated above.