Re: [ga] lifetime rights

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:43 p.m. 23/03/2007, you wrote:
> 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

 :-) China has just made  legal protection of property part of the law.

 .cn privileges are likely restricted to PRC residents and not open to 
registrants at large; perhaps the People's republic of ICANN could now 
follow ..



> 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-
>
> -joop-