Re: [ga][RAA] Involuntary expirations

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:00 a.m. 19/04/2007, Prophet Partners Inc. wrote:
> Hi Joop,
>
> You also stated earlier that the redistribution of expired domains was
> wrong.,

Ted,

I said that only about *inadvertently* expired names. Please do not put 
nonsense in my mouth.


> to which we replied with a detailed explanation and several
> analogies of why the current process is fair to registrants.


I took exception to your "mortgage" analogy and again I think your "parking 
space" analogy is not appropriate, if only because of the real scarcity of 
parking spaces, which has no equivalent in the name space. (i'm not talking 
about the TLD space).
Sorry, but in the last 8 years I have heard too many arguments by analogy 
to justify contractual and regulatory practices that could have been much 
more registrant- friendly had the registrants been represented in the 
process of their making.

>  Bear in mind
> that we are speaking from the perspective of a registrant with several
> thousand domain names and it is in our best interest to protect registrant
> rights..
> http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg06471.html

Then I suppose we can end up in perfect agreement.


-joop-