RE: [ga] price policy

[Veni Markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx>]

When someone is making a point, and this someone 
comes from a respected company that has a problem, then I listen.
The observatoins show that spammers use most of 
the time domain names which are cheap, rather 
than domain names which are expensive. While your 
calculation may be right - I don't know that - 
the observations are clear. Note that I am not taking a side.

I'd say that it's not the same if someone buys 1 
million domain names at $ 1 each, or at $ 6 each. 
But in anycase - the bigger point is if ICANN 
should regulate or not. I asked Karl similar 
question, but haven't heard from him.

veni

At 02:22 PM 10.10.2006 '?.'Ъ┬Ж  -0700, Tim Ruiz wrote:
> Veni,
>
> I didn't take Ted's comment as comparing spam to 
> murders. I understood him to be referring to the 
> desired result - the likelihood that a floor 
> price on domain names will reduce spam.
>
> But I do think your analogy to junk mail - spam 
> through the post - is a bad analogy. A spammer 
> will pay once for a domain name (figuring they 
> cannot use it beyond a year, likely a lot less) 
> and the cost is spread out over millions of 
> pieces of spam. So a floor price on a domain 
> name is going to increase their costs by a very tiny amount per peice.
>
> Tim


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