Re: [ga] VeriSign to auction deleting domains!

[Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 22, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:

> If I want to buy a deleting domain www.money.com because the previous
> registrant went bankrupt, surely it's fine for the Registry to 
> distribute
> THAT domain for me too. And if I cut out the middle man and some 
> obscure
> shell-registrar who I have no knowledge of then all well and good.
But you're not really cutting out the middle man. The price will be the 
same as if he was there, except Verisign will be pocketing the 
proceeds.

They're supposed to be running the system on a cost+ basis, not a 
"screw everyone for as much as we can get" one.