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

[Alan Sullivan <sully@votiv.com>]

At 10:55 PM 11/13/97 -0200, Benjamin_Azevedo@ibm.net wrote:
>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 ?
>
Hi,

Yes it does seem reasonable. In fact we at VoTiV Systems 
(who were the vendor finalist to deliver the CORE Shared 
Registry System - against the eventual winner - Emergent) 
devised such a system. The proceeds would have gone to 
CORE to support the operation of the Shared Registry System. 
CORE would not have had to pay a penny for the development 
and operation of the CORE Shared Registry System. We even 
developed the auction system. The proposal (while 
considered "interesting") was soundly rejected by 
the CORE Executive Committee. If anyone is 
interested in a demo of the system let me know. I am not 
sure what good this will do now since Emergent has won 
the contract, and they are the ones who are 
supposed to deliver a solution to the surge problem.

Cheers,
Alan
 
>
>Benjamin Azevedo
>
Alan Sullivan,
Managing Director,
VoTiV Systems, LLC

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