Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management

[Vadim Antonov <avg () exigengroup com>]

You can always have as many domains as you wish -- inside your zone.
Short words is a scarce resource, and therefore their use must be 
rationed in some way.  The pure market approach (i.e. selling them for 
flat rate) doesn't seem to be sufficient for squatter deterrence (they 
nearly always lose in court, but this may be prohibitively expensive for 
those who have legitimate reasons for obtaining those domain names).

--vadim

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:

> What right does the government have in preventing people from having
> multiple domains and trading/selling them? Thats none of your (or)
> the government's business.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <vince () penguin-power com>
> To: "Vadim Antonov" <avg () exigengroup com>
> Cc: <nanog () merit edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:22 AM
> Subject: Re: ICANN - The Case for Replacing its Management
>
>
> > > 4) exponential fee increments for registering domains with the same
> > >    payer's physical address and/or name.
> >
> > Yeah so I don't like this suggestion at all. What if a company has several
> business units each with its own domain name, with the same address, and
> with a shared accounting department. Or an ISP that offers to pay for its
> customers domain if they prepay for a year. Or someone like me who owns
> several domains?
> > Nope I really dont' like this suggestion, the other ones seem to be more
> thought out.
> > -Vince