Jefsey,Your scenario is completely illogical and your reasoning is the most fallacious
I have observed in this forum (which has already seen a great deal of fallacious
arguments). In fact, your scenario is the perfect example of the "Slippery Slope"
fallacy (which FYI, is when one objects to a particular action on the grounds that
it will lead to other, less desireable actions). It was a humorous read though. Thanks
for the laughs.
I've seen a lot of talk here about scripts that will allow "cybersquatters"
to register all the generic domains within minutes. In jefsy's "scenario", registrations
are accepted by email and everybody emails their registrations to all the registrars
at the same time. Obviously, if the registry system doesn't accept registrations
by email, this problem has been instantly eliminated. In fact, very few registrars
today accept automated registrations by email for .com, .net, and .org domains. NSI
previously allowed email registrations, however access to this ability is now restricted
to companies who are members of an NSI Business program. There are a handful
of domain speculators that seem to always get the good domains when they expire,
and yes they do have scripts that HELP them, however I know from experience that
these people also get "inside" information from people who have full access to the
registry. The scripts that they use are not widely available for obvious reasons,
and these scripts have been developed because the programmer ALREADY KNEW the structure
of the registry. With new gTLDs, the structure and inner workings of the registry
should not be released prior to the first day of registration. If this is done,
there won't be any scripts capable of automatically registering generic names because
the script programmers will not know the registry details needed to write the scripts.
As a professional programmer (and domain speculator) with experience developing commercial
Perl, C, VBScript, and ColdFusion applications for the Internet, I can say that I
have the experience necessary to put this ridiculous myth to rest.
Jeff