[policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

Tue Aug 14 02:22:54 UTC 2007

On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> I was just struck by a couple of statistics:
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> In January 2007, according to PIR five registrars deleted 1,773,910  
> domain
> names during the grace period and retained 10,862. That same month,
> VeriSign reported that among top ten registrars, 95% of all  
> deleted .COM
> and .Net domain names were the result of domain tasting.

So, if they charged a $ 1 "return fee," they would either

- produce revenues of several million USD per month (unlikely) or
- cut domain tasting by about 2 orders of magnitude.

This seems like one problem with a simple solution. I am sure that  
someone will rapidly tell
me why it won't work, but in an era when an airline will charge you $  
40 to $ 200 USD to correct
a typo, I don't see why this is excessive.

Regard
Marshall

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> Having said that, Jay Westerdal mentioned on Sunday that:
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> Today was the largest Domain Tasting day ever. We recorded over 8  
> Million
> Transactions today. This is a new high. We have never seen 8 Million
> transactions on one day before. That would be either an add or  
> delete. Over
> 99 percent of these transactions are completely free and use the 5 day
> grace period to test domain names for traffic before they are  
> purchase for
> a long term buy.
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> http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/08/biggest-domain-tasting-day-ever/
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> Although I'm not sure all of that 8M+ were actual "tasted", it
> does represent an astronomical number of registrations.
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> Just a couple of data points.
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> - - ferg
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