Re: don heath's comments

[Alan Sullivan <sully@frontiernet.net>]

>Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
>> 
>> > Alan Sullivan wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > As to shared vs. exclusive iTLDs, the technical stuff is easy.
>> > > Distributed databases exist, they work. The hard stuff here is in
>> > > people space, not technical space. If iTLDs are shared what is to keep
>> > > one party fromhoarding all the valuable names? We have not solved the
>> > > greed problem, and this is inviting it.
>> > >
>> >
>> > 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.
>> 
>> >
>> > Vince Wolodkin
>> >
>> 
>> Hank Nussbacher
>> IAHC member
>> [the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
>> necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]
HI Hank and Vince,
I agree with Hank, unless we can do something about hoarding, I don't
know how shared iTLDs will be administered fairly. Contract (legal) may
be one means - the problems is which court has jurisdiction on
international legal matters? Wouldn't it be better (as much as I find
the the idea of shared iTLDs intriguing and interesting) to use
structural constructs such as exclusive iTLDs to solve this problem?

Thanks,
Alan Sullivan
Top Domain Registry Inc.