Re: [ga] VeriSign reopening the Pandora's box of auctioning expired domains

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

George and all,

  To me anyway this only demonstrates that originally ICANN
made a mistake in the allowance of single letter domain names
back when Mike Roberts was CEO and nixed the idea.  So now registries
have the opertunity to reap financial benifits through sale 
of these previously non-allowed DN's.  The thing that's wrong
with this is that the original desired registrants for single
digit DN's are now getting cheated after the fact as well as
before the fact.  That's just plain wrong!  


-----Original Message-----
>From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Aug 13, 2010 7:37 AM
>To: GNSO GA Mailing List <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ga] VeriSign reopening the Pandora's box of auctioning expired 
>domains
>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>See:
>
>http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/verisign-request-12aug10-en.pdf
>http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/  (201009)
>
>"At the end of the Pending Delete Period, the single or two character 
>domain name will not be available for re-registration as it will be 
>re-auctioned 
>at a future date and time."
>
>(bottom of page 5)
>
>This reopens all the same issues as the WLS/CLS, for expired domains, the 
>anti-trust/competition issue in the CFIT lawsuit, etc.. Opening things just a 
>crack for one/two-character domains would create the precedent to extend it 
>later to all domains.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>George Kirikos
>http://www.leap.com/

Regards,

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