Re: 60 day waiting period.... a suggestion ...

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 06:01 PM 12/21/96 -0600, Christopher Sevcik wrote:

>At 08:36 PM 12/21/96 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

><<snip>>

>>How do others feel about this proposal in regards to 60 day wait???
>
>Rather than my suggestion, I offer my thought, in form of a question:
>
>Why is it that I can Incorporate a business, and be providing value
>for my public (clients) *the-same-day*, but when it comes time to 
>registering a domain name with the 60 day wait, I am denied the right
>to provide value for my public, potentially stopping me from competing 
>with competitors who have submitted sooner?
>
>No matter how smart or fast or wealthy we are, there is always someone,
>somewhere that has gone further than you might have, and the greatest 
>thing about business, is that when you identify that a competitor has
>raised a standard that you have not, if you throttle up, work around
>the clock (whatever), you can catch up and often surpass back to a 
>leadership position overnight (figuratively speaking).
>
>60 day wait prevents and limits that potential.

No, not at all.  You can still set up a third-level domain in ten minutes,
simply by adding a domain to a second-level domain.

I expect that enterprising businesses will set up services for exactly
this.  You want an easily remembered domain name, and you want it in ten
minutes?  Call up speedydomain.com and pay them a few bucks to create
easily.speedydomain.com.  Well, that might be too many syllables, but you
get the idea.

Or, if your business already exists and you are simply adding a new product
or a new service, again in ten minutes you create newservice.existing.com.

You see, there is a balancing going on here.  Right now, with NSI's
terribly flawed policy, it can be 60 days or 600 days or 6000 days after
the domain name was registered, and NSI will cut it off with little
warning.  That denies you the right to provide value to the public, stops
you from competing with competitors, causes you to lose a leadership
position.  In other words, the present regime is terribly flawed.

I sort of don't like the 60-day period either, but the balance can't be
ignored.  Under the proposed policy, you would be free of the shadow over
your business that comes from NSI's terribly flawed policy.  Instead, you
get a pretty warm fuzzy feeling that if you signed up for a domain name,
and if you aren't infringing anybody's trademark, then probably nobody can
take the domain name from you.  If somebody with a meritless claim goes to
NSI under the present policy, you are screwed.  Under the proposed policy,
if someone with a meritless claim were to go to a court, the judge is going
to look at them and say, "where were you during the 60-day period?  If it's
so important, then why did you wait until now to complain?"  The judge is
going to be inclined to protect the status quo, namely you.