Re: don heath's comments

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

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.
> 

And, as I think I have said before, this behavior could be controlled
through contract/regulation.  Repeating myself again, isn't hoarding
much easier to do when you have exclusive rights to the iTLD?

Vince Wolodkin