Re: don heath's comments

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 10:27 PM +0200 11/23/96, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> > Could you explain what you mean, please.  If all TLD's are shared, and
> > every registry has the same right to sell domains in every TLD, how can
> > oneparty hoard names?  I think  the greed problem is more readily
> > apparent in monopoly registries.  How are shared registries inviting
> > greed???  I just don't get it.
>
> I share with you .xyz iTLD.  It is very popular.  I have my
> partner set up a shell company in the Cayman Islands to register
> via me - 20,000 very popular names like pizza.xyz and beer.xyz.  I
> either charge him nothing or $50 per domain or whatever - it
> makes little difference.  When a customer comes along that wants
> pizza.xyz - it is taken and that registry points the customer to
> his shell company that will sell the pizza.xyz domain for $1000.
> You - who played fair - have nothing to offer.  DN hoarding in
> a shared iTLD is very possible unless somehow controlled via contract.
>

So what's different in this example to the existing .COM hoarding? Nothing.

Just pray hard that a partner of SAIC is not behind Freeview. SAIC's
easily a big enough company for "coincidences" like that to happen
innocently, let alone being planned/contrived.

RFC1591:

   2) These designated authorities are trustees for the delegated
      domain, and have a duty to serve the community.

      The designated manager is the trustee of the top-level domain for
      both the nation, in the case of a country code, and the global
      Internet community.

Trustee has something vaguely to do with trust. If that trust is
broken, the authority for delegation is also broken.

   3) The designated manager must be equitable to all groups in the
      domain that request domain names.

      This means that the same rules are applied to all requests, all
      requests must be processed in a non-discriminatory fashion, and
      academic and commercial (and other) users are treated on an equal
      basis.  No bias shall be shown regarding requests that may come
      from customers of some other business related to the manager --
      e.g., no preferential service for customers of a particular data
      network provider.  There can be no requirement that a particular
      mail system (or other application), protocol, or product be used.

With a few modifications, this will spell out the solution. Business
partners of the designated manager don't get to hoard names.

The problem IS NOT "what if it happens?" It's too late then. The
problem is "what is going to be done when it happens?"

What is the IAHC going to set in place to a) prevent this from
happening, and b) resolve this if it happens?


Simon

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