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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:50:32 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com> wrote:
On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:I was just struck by a couple of statistics: [snip] In January 2007, according to PIR five registrars deleted 1,773,910 domain names during the grace period and retained 10,862. That same month, VeriSign reported that among top ten registrars, 95% of all deleted .COM and .Net domain names were the result of domain tasting.So, if they charged a $ 1 "return fee," they would either - produce revenues of several million USD per month (unlikely) or - cut domain tasting by about 2 orders of magnitude.
... or both. I think I could live with that, all things being equal. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGwSaBq1pz9mNUZTMRAoxDAKCUZ8s/Q/tRF6NC0T7jC6SRFy1zVACgplR4 NZVluA1bG+T0JiZuZrsrVGQ= =Ey48 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
Current thread:
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy..., (continued)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Brandon Butterworth (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Brandon Butterworth (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Paul Ferguson (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Paul Ferguson (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Marshall Eubanks (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... John Levine (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Marshall Eubanks (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... John L (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... william(at)elan.net (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Dorn Hetzel (Aug 16)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Marshall Eubanks (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Marshall Eubanks (Aug 14)
- Domain tasting; a load of hot air? michael.dillon (Aug 14)
- Re: Domain tasting; a load of hot air? Marshall Eubanks (Aug 14)
- Re: Domain tasting; a load of hot air? Chris L. Morrow (Aug 14)
- RE: Domain tasting; a load of hot air? michael.dillon (Aug 15)