Re: [ga] lifetime rights

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joop and all,

  Now this may be a good idea, if the price is right.  Also such a
lifetime registration/domain name should be transferable to ones
heirs for their lifetime as well.  However restricting such to only
one Domain name doesn't seem reasonable.  There should be
no restriction to the number of Domain names which would
be lifetime domain names, as such would be and arbitrary
restriction.

  However what your suggesting here Joop has already been
discussed back in 2000 - 2001, and was rejected by Mike
Roberts and the than ICANN Bod, as doing so would confer
defacto ownership of a Domain name.  Domain names can
be Trade Marked, not owned.

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> Dear Ga-ers,
>
> As part of the feedback that ICANN is asking on new RAA agreements, I would
> ask for a new service that truly adds value to registration rights:
> lifetime registration.
> Just as a person has the right to name his children for life, so should
> individual registrants have the right to lifetime registration of their
> chosen domain name.
>
> No more domain theft during shortened or non-existent grace periods.
> No more registrar swindles.
> There is no inherent need for a 10 year limit on "domain licences" and the
> implied possibility of future extortion on valuable names.
>
> Direct lifetime registrations, securely escrowed with ICANN,  is a much
> more valuable service. A simpler operation as well.
>
> Such rights should be given to identifiable individuals and could perhaps
> be restricted to one name per individual.
> As long as the principle is expressed that an individual registrant should
> have such rights and at what price.
>
> This database would also make a very good electorate for Individual Domain
> Name Owners.
>
> -joop-

Regards,

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