Re: Shared domains

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 8:51 AM +0200 11/19/96, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> Having an iTLD is like having an apartment.  Sharing an iTLD is like sharing
> an apartment.  You have to be able to get along
> in order to survive.  What if one of the registries registers 10,000 popular
> generic words in the shared iTLD in order to resell it later, thereby locking
> out his competing registries from getting their hands on these choice
> names?  If your answer is that registries can't own names in their
> own registry, then what is to stop a shell company set up in the Cayman
> Islands, owned by the registry in question from entering the request?
> And if this registry has a special introductory deal for the first month
> of operation whereby all requests are for free, then the first registry has
> basically locked out the other "sharing" registries.
>

Nice buck pass. RFC1591 states that a registration authority is a
trustee. It's IANA's and now (duly buck-passed to) the IAHC's
responsibility to find these trustees that can adequately perform the
registry duties. Ultimately, if the above scenario comes true, it is
because the IAHC picked the wrong trustees. And if they don't do
anything about that situation if it happens, they will be right back at
square one.

Come on folks, the question is not "What happens if...?". It's "What do
we do when...?".


Simon

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