Re: [ga] lifetime rights

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest that you ask CNNIC. I understand they plan to give away .cn 
names @ .10 per year, so you could have a lifetime DN for $ 10.
jfc



At 06:11 23/03/2007, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> Dear Ga-ers,
>
> As part of the feedback that ICANN is asking on new RAA agreements, 
> I would ask for a new service that truly adds value to registration 
> rights: lifetime registration.
> Just as a person has the right to name his children for life, so 
> should individual registrants have the right to lifetime 
> registration of their chosen domain name.
>
> No more domain theft during shortened or non-existent grace periods.
> No more registrar swindles.
> There is no inherent need for a 10 year limit on "domain licences" 
> and the implied possibility of future extortion on valuable names.
>
> Direct lifetime registrations, securely escrowed with ICANN,  is a 
> much more valuable service. A simpler operation as well.
>
> Such rights should be given to identifiable individuals and could 
> perhaps be restricted to one name per individual.
> As long as the principle is expressed that an individual registrant 
> should have such rights and at what price.
>
> This database would also make a very good electorate for Individual 
> Domain Name Owners.
>
> -joop-