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Re[2]: [ga] domain tastinmg comments

  • To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Shane Kinsch <shane.kinsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re[2]: [ga] domain tastinmg comments
  • From: Karl Peters - TLDA <tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:53:48 -0500
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<p><span class=rvts7><br></span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>&gt; In general, you pay a fine of $2,851,200 just to 
sample 18,000,000 domain names in a year and keep only the ones that barely pay 
for themselves.&nbsp; That�s not good business sense anyway you look at 
it.&nbsp; I would estimate a much higher drop rate such as 90+%.</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>&gt;&nbsp; </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>&gt; If ICANN would enact a penalty as such, that anything 
over a nominal percentage is charged $0.20/drop would take care of this and 
everyone else.&nbsp; The legit registrars are happy and the tasters/kiters will 
go away.&nbsp; It�s not feasible for them to keep operating.</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts8><br></span></p>
<p><span class=rvts8>So you want to talk about numbers and feasibility instead 
of right and wrong? OK...</span></p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Let's say a scammer picks up 500 domains under 
this tasting policy and sends out solicitations as we have described and 
discussed to sell them at $295 per domain for people to "complete" their 
registrations of the major TLDs' domains of their name. </p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Let's say that of these five hundred names that 
are tied up and unavailable for consumers for a week (perhaps the one time they 
will try for that name for some time to come, if they are not sufficiently 
skeptical and aware of the effects of tasting), they successfully sell 2 of 
them, but for less than advertised. </p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Let's say they settle for $500.00 for the two 
registrations they sell and then return the other 498 domains at $0.20 each 
penalty, or $99.60. This scammer just made a profit of $400.40 for one week of 
free e-mails based on improper marketing of unregistered domains and I still 
have no example of any corporation who has used this program as it was 
intended.</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>-Karl E. Peters</p>

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