Re: Proposals

[Antony Van Couvering <avc@netnamesusa.com>]

At 09:18 PM 6/18/97 -0400, Sandy C. Kronenberg wrote:
>1) I also propose that there be a minimum fee for registrations that CORE 
>decides upon and this fee is reviewed every 2 years.  THERE MUST be a 
>minimum fee...if there isnt, then some firm will simply find a registrar who 
>will allow them to register thousands of names...and we then run into the 
>same problem again...lots of names being held and not used...

This is price-fixing and is probably illegal

>
>2) I would also like to propose that any registrar may not have more than 10 
>of the new 7 TLD names pointing to its own name servers or to any name 
>servers that its company owns more than 10% of another companies stock...IF 
>this proposal is not put into effect than any registrar can register the 
>entire dictionary and then everybody will have to pay it whatever fees it 
>demands...I FEEL service providers and registrars should be seperate 
>entities because of the potential of abuse.

This won't work because many registrants don't have their own nameservers.
NetNames, for instance, has about 15 domains of its own hosted on our
servers, but we have thousands of our customers domains

>
>3) I propose that e-mail addresses,contacts and credit cards (or other 
>payment) be verified before any registrar supplies a name...this should only 
>take seconds...and prevent the problems that network solutions is 
>having...like millions of $ in unpaid bills...and if one or more registrars 
>receive falsified info (fake name, credit info) that we have a combined 
>blacklist...

That's a decision for CORE (the blacklist).  If NetNames becomes a
registrar, we will probably ask for payment up front except from customers
with whom we've worked in the past.  I think this is standard operating
procedure for most businesses -- build a little trust, then ease payment
terms.

Antony Van Couvering


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