Re: don heath's comments

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

Alan Sullivan wrote:
> 
> >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.

Alan,

If I am a shared registry who wishes to hoard a large subset of SLD's I
have to come up with some scheme to hide it from the world presuming it
is made illegal in a contract/regulation process.

On the other hand, if I am an exclusive registry, I don't need to work
up any careful schemes to hide anything, BY DEFINITION, AN EXCLUSIVE
REGISTRY HOARDS THE ENTIRE NAMESPACE WITHIN A TLD!

This is an amazing thread, I cannot believe the conclusions people can
come to when they have money on the line.

Vince Wolodkin