Waiting for Santa Claus? Privatize TLD's but *CHARGE* registrars for it !

[Benjamin Azevedo <benjamin@nome.com>]

Waiting for Santa Claus?        Privatize TLD's but *CHARGE* for it !    
    

Just to clarify a point, our proposal *is not to charge domain names 
owners*, but rather to charge an appropriate value against registrars of 
new TLD, as they will start their *businesses* with a lot of *gold 
valued* domains names that may be sold.

To be fair, I think we should allow them to make a special 
pre-registration process, similar to an auction, where, before regular 
registration is open, those wanting special names would place bids on 
their choice names.
In this preliminary step, names would be *sold* by the highest bid. 
We may even decide between open electronic auction or "blind" proposals, 
nobody know other bids.

After this special registration, regular low price registration for any 
name.

I think this is the best approach for pre-registration, as we know that 
names have different value. 
Better doing this way instead of having a lucky guy getting of of those 
names for a nominal fee and selling it for a small fortune.  We will be 
reflecting this in the price registrars would pay to get the rights over 
a TLD.

Ask any major corporation how much would they pay to be the registrar of 
a new TLD if in addition to regular reduced registration fees, they can 
collect this initial pre-registration bids.

Benjamin Azevedo