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Username: Jodawi
Date/Time: Fri, June 16, 2000 at 1:57 PM GMT
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Subject: Use free lottery to award new gTLDs

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        The only fair way to distribute new gTLDs - people
preregister for
the domains they want in the order they want and have a credit
card number which will be automatically charged if the domain
they want is available, and people are randomly chosen to
determine who gets what. So if A and B want Foo.Bar, and A also
wants Foo.Moo, then the random chooser might pick B, who gets
Foo.Bar, then later hits A, who misses their first choice but gets
the second one.

If B's card failed to work tho, they lose out, and A might get both
their first and second choice.

Everyone gets one chance before they can get a second domain.
Only one person can use one credit card number, and legal
entities can have only one list (so one company can't register
under a billion names to increase the chances that they get all
they want.)
     

 


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