Re: [ga] VeriSign to auction deleting domains!

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Kirikos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "I told you so" comes to mind -- VeriSign's greed has no bound, and
> isn't limited to WLS. 

George, remember the movie "Wall Street" when Douglas' character Gordon 
Gekko maes the pronouncement that "greed is good"?  Well, I guess my 
only question is, why shouldn't it be?

> For those who've not had time to read through the
> VeriSign dot-net application:
>
> http://www.icann.org/tlds/net-rfp/applications/verisign.htm
>
> buried near the end one can find the following:
>
> "VeriSign is now working with Bruce Tonkin, one of the Registrar
> Constituency's representatives to the GNSO Council, to facilitate the
> process of developing a solution for an industry-wide com/net deleted
> names handling process, which facilitates an open auction during the
> pending delete period.  

What is so terrible about this?  I think this will serve to make coveted 
memorable domains even more dear. After all, nobody is born into this 
world with any guarantees.

To think that any self-concerned business entity ought simply to allow 
for the sale of something at less than could be gotten for it, is a 
little too red for my tastes, even if I am a Canadian.

> In January 2005, VeriSign will begin surveying end users in the
> Internet community to get input on various types of auction house
> solutions and price sensitivity for deleted name auctions. 

Sky's the limit, far as I'm concerned. Yeehaw!

Nevertheless, I would like to see stringent safeguards built into the 
system to ensure against accidental or malicious deletions etc., along 
with policy mechanisms to quickly and easily expedite repatriations in 
case(s) of mistakes or criminal actvity

> VeriSign
> anticipates providing the feedback received from end users, along with
> a revised deleted names proposed auction model in February 2005. The
> proposed model will be further vetted with registrars and other
> stakeholders to ensure that it adequately addresses the needs of
> registrars, registrants, and other impacted parties."

If only ICANN were to proceed in like manner... :-)

> I wonder if they'll be using the same survey company that showed
> "everyone loved SiteFinder"??

George, just because you didn't happen to find it helpful does not mean 
that it wasn't.  Do you have any hard statistical evidence to the 
contrary insofar as SiteFinder was concerned?

Amiably,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos


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