Re: [ga] ICANN Board can intervene to stop domain tasting for 1 year

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roberto and all,

  Of course there is a cost.  We all know that.  What is more important
that the costs were generated by a lack of good RIR policy which many
pointed out many times in the past and were either ignored, not understood,
or not recognized/believed at that time.  Secondly, it is ICANN's lack
of dealing with this porblem early on when elaborated upon at length,
that has now become a very real and recognizable problem...

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Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> George Kirikos wrote:
>
> >
> > The economics of pizzas and domain names are entirely
> > different. A pizza has labour, material and delivery costs
> > that are far above 20 cents. A domain name is an electronic
> > record in a database where the marginal costs are close to
> > zero for the registry operator, far below 20 cents.
>
> The point was not on economics, but on the fact that the expectation of
> being able to cancel an economic transaction at zero cost is uncommon in the
> real world. What is the marginal cost of cancelling a reservation in a hotel
> or a flight? From the operational POV, not much different from the
> cancellation of a domain name record. However, you have very strict rules
> for cancellation of rooms and seats.
>
> > .....
> >
> > PIR has essentially eliminated tasting in .org with their
> > non-refundable fee. The same would happen in .com/net should
> > ICANN move forward. It's simple economics, which the
> > automated tasters understand, but it seems some folks don't.
>
> I am sure everybody understands the economics.
> PIR has eliminated the tasting with their non-refundable fee in the same way
> airlines have eliminated the no-show with a fee that is non-refundable in
> case of cancellation. So what?
>
> Cheers,
> Roberto
>
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