Re: don heath's comments

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Hank Nussbacher allegedly said:
> 
[...]
> My idea - don't allow trading.  If one can't transfer ownership, then
> the value of a certain DN is much less and the "brokers" would go out
> of business and the "hoarders" would have nothing to do.  I know it 
> is not a perfect solution - there are valid cases where people want
> to transfer ownership.  I would like to hear opinions for or against
> this idea.

Perhaps this would limit it some, but I don't think it would eliminate
it.  Instead of trading ual.com to united airlines, I would just agree
to stop paying the internic, and let "ual" get back to unassigned. 
This is less convenient, for sure, and opens the possibility that 
somebody else would step in and grab ual.  But I think there would be 
a clear deterrent effect.

You wouldn't have to totally disallow trading to get the same effect
-- you could just make it difficult by requiring documentation and
that appropriate conditions be met. 

> I also would like to any other ideas.  The IAHC likes hearing ideas
> from the list.

Hire high powered lawyers to come up with a model licensing agreement
for registries that they can have their customers sign before getting
a domain name.  (This is a recursive application of the rule for TLDs
:-)

The entire model would be changed from the notion that a registry
*sells* a domain to the notion that a registry *licenses* a domain.  So
the IANA would license some registry the use of the name .religion, the
licensee of the .religion domain would license catholic.religion to the 
Vatican, and the Vatican could license subdomains to all kinds 
of organizations that met its standards for whatever.  You can 
imagine breach of contract cases like this -- the Vatican sells a 
domain to a baseball team -- giants.catholic.religion, and the 
licensee of .religion files a breach of contract suit against the 
Vatican because the license signed by the Vatican guaranteed that all 
subdomains would be related to religion....

Sure is getting deep out here.

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