Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Ivan Pope <ivan@webcontent.com>]

A sixty day non use policy really is the pits. It will not stop anyone who
wants to try and reclaim a name from going to law.
800,000 domain names x 60 days = 48,000,000
48,000,000 / 365 = 131,506 years
So we would have lost over 131 thousand years of domain name use in a
marketplace where time is already compressed to a huge degree. Think of the
cramp that would have put on our industry.
It frightens me. I have registered domain names, put up web sites, got
publicity, received e-mail and been up and running with a project within
one day.
The new world does not favour the IBMs of this world, it favours the fleet
of foot. A sixty day non-use period would no doubt be fine to those long
gestation period projects, but not to anyone else.
Lose it.
Ivan

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