Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Christopher Ambler writes:
> First off, I should echo Kent's comments that the 60-day period would
> apply to only a seriously small percentage of domains,

I'd guess over 99% of contracts are never contested. Why do we bother
to write them down? Aren't written contracts just a "hassle" we
could do without?

The vast majority of wills are simple. Why have a will at all?

>   Joe's Grocery owns (for example) buyfoodonline.com, which they have
> had for over a year now.
[...]
>   Jane's Grocery sees this and realizes that because of a great idea
> that Jane had last night, she could do it much much better. She
> applies for betterfoodonline.biz, but is told that she cannot use
> it for 60 days.

If you can actually set up an on line grocery delivery business
complete with payments from inception to full rollout in substantially
less than 60 days, you shouldn't be trying to enter the registry
business -- you should be doing systems contracting.

> Jane now has a 60-day wait before she can compete,
> through no fault of her own. She will immediately question the
> registrar as to why they are placing this restraint on her trade.

I assume, Chris, that you sue your suppliers for "restraint of trade"
when they tell you parts are on allocation?


Perry
Speaking for myself, not for the IAHC