Re: Suspension of reissuing deleted domain names

[Curtis Villamizar <curtis () brookfield ans net>]

In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.970709111719.600w-100000 () inorganic5 fdt net>, Jon Lew
is writes:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, David H. Holtzman wrote:
>
> > Until further notice, Network Solutions will be temporarily suspending the
> > process of deleting domain names for which payment has not been received.
> > In recent weeks the InterNIC has been spammed repeatedly with tens of
> > thousands of requests by domain name speculators attempting to register
>
> What can be down about domainbrokers.com?  Have a look at the files at
> http://www.domainbrokers.com/asp/.  I just tried to register a domain for
> a customer, and found that it had been registered the day before by
> domainbrokers.com.  I believe they have no intention to use the domain
> name.  All they hope to do is sell it, probably for $1000.  They appear to
> have setup no DNS records other than NS records for it. 
>
> Companies like this that piss in the domain name registration pool should
> be banned from registering domains.


One step would be to prioritize domains which correspond to physical
networks.  If an organization is actually connected to the network
they can get one prioritized registration for the domain name for
their network.  In the event of a conflict a domain registration for
an actual network would take precedence to a psuedo-domain having only
MX records and pointing to a web server on a provider's network.  Dial
accounts would not qualify since they are not permanently connected.

There would still be conflicts, but this might make domain name
speculation a thing of the past.

Curtis