Re: Suspension of reissuing deleted domain names

[Daniel Senie <dts () proteon com>]

Edward Fang wrote:
> I think this would be extremely unfair to legitimate domain registrants
> who are truly interested in a name (and willing to pay the registration
> fee) due to the random (and extreme) number of registrations that these
> domain speculators are registering.  You are essentially putting a domain
> name that has never been paid for for two years, because some speculator
> registered it.  This would give the speculators even more reason to
> extract the value of the name from someone who may want it - "If you don't
> pay me, its gone for two years....."

Hmmm. Guess I was thinking it would only apply to domains that actually
WERE
already active, not ones that'd never gone live...

My concern was that a company whose registration hadn't gotten paid for,
whether due to error at the company or at the Internic, should not be
a possible target of extortion by speculators making a grab for their
domain name.

Guess I have to agree with other folks that domains should be PAID for
before
they appear in the root servers. Too much abuse otherwise.

> Ed
>
> On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Daniel Senie wrote:
>
> :With regards the issue of prospectors trying to grab deleted domains,
> :perhaps the InterNIC should use a similar policy to what the FCC uses
> :for radio callsigns (amateur radio, at least): Callsigns which are
> :abandoned due to change of callsign, death, or expiration of the license
> :are unavailable for re-issue for two years. This allows for the previous
> :owner (if not dead) to reclaim the callsign (or a relative of the
> :deceased to do so). It also helps avoid identity confusion.
> :
> :Seems like the same rules would make sense in the domain name context,
> :and would avoid problems where billing errors or other problems dealing
> :with the Internic could result in loss of a domain name.
> :
> :--

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