Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 05:08 PM 12/26/96 PST, Christopher Ambler wrote:
>Perry said...
>>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?
>
>Because making a contract or writing a will harms nobody. A 60-day
>waiting period harms the vast vast majority of domain registrants.

Nope.  It helps them, months and years later.  By slowing down or halting
the latecomers who, months or years later, would try to force them to give
up their domain names.


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