Re: [ga] VeriSign to auction deleting domains!

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

  First, thank you George for the link.  Second, we agree and disagree
on your remaining remarks/evaluations/assumptions.  We agree that
WLS was a bad concept/idea from it's conception.  The auctioning
of abandon domain names is unnecessary and ethically wrong.  We
disagree that your contention of  "SiteFinder" being less than well
received or desired.  Several independent surveys confirmed this,
not just the company Verisign hired to conduct it's survey regarding
"SiteFinder".  It also should be noted that ICANN "Approved"
WLS despite it's lack of exceptance, and at least what Verisign
is proposing in it's bid to retain .NET does significantly include
Stakeholder/users in it's decision.  How Verisign intends to
get a good cross section of such Stakeholders/users is where
the rubber meets the road...

George Kirikos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "I told you so" comes to mind -- VeriSign's greed has no bound, and
> isn't limited to WLS. For those who've not had time to read through the
> VeriSign dot-net application:
>
> http://www.icann.org/tlds/net-rfp/applications/verisign.htm
>
> buried near the end one can find the following:
>
> "VeriSign is now working with Bruce Tonkin, one of the Registrar
> Constituency's representatives to the GNSO Council, to facilitate the
> process of developing a solution for an industry-wide com/net deleted
> names handling process, which facilitates an open auction during the
> pending delete period.
>
> In January 2005, VeriSign will begin surveying end users in the
> Internet community to get input on various types of auction house
> solutions and price sensitivity for deleted name auctions. VeriSign
> anticipates providing the feedback received from end users, along with
> a revised deleted names proposed auction model in February 2005. The
> proposed model will be further vetted with registrars and other
> stakeholders to ensure that it adequately addresses the needs of
> registrars, registrants, and other impacted parties."
>
> I wonder if they'll be using the same survey company that showed
> "everyone loved SiteFinder"??
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/

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