Re: registrars the big winners? Maybe Internet infrastructure , instead

[Benjamin_Azevedo@ibm.net]

pat forrestal wrote:
> 
> it would seem to me that at this point the only 'winners' in the
> pre-registration sweepstakes are the registrars who stand to capitalize on
> every variation of good words in the dictionary.
> 
> now at $50 a pop or more($30,000?), there are 86 new multi-millionaries
> being made at the expense of the duped public which can't even be assurred
> of getting their chosen domain name with so many registrars.
> 
> what a bummer..
> 
> pat forrestal

Pat,

WHILE only a few new TLD's are added 
(as it is being done now),
and they use the FCFS criteria,
there is a critical period that is initial 
registration on "fully available" name space 
in each new TLD.

The structure of multiple registrars is 
probably good for steady state registration,
but for sure this initial "gate openning" period
would be better managed if separated from 
future "on going" registrations.

For those "initial registrations" I would 
suggest a previous and separated process,
open to all that want to make sure they get 
their names in those new TLD's,
probably in an "auction like" process,
but with monetary product of those auctions
going to an institutional program,
beneficent or aimed at some kind of
Internet infrastructure development,
rather than to lucky registrars that are just
registrars, not the owners of this name space.

So, if there is people willing to pay for some names 
       (for sure there are such candidates)
instead of directing this money to registrars,
    or even to lukcy ones that end by get those names,
I suggest that CORE defines a destination for the
result of this proposed initial registration auction 
while registrars get a nominal registration fee ($50 ?)
for their clerical work.

Seems reasonable ?


Benjamin Azevedo