[95847] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Sat Apr 7 16:29:49 2007
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAuAAAAAAAAAKTyXRN5/+lGvU59a+P7CFMBAN6gY+ZG84BMpVQcAbDh1IQAAAATbSgAABAAAADjIpiPuT6ZSKnGb+NmU0Y7AQAAAAA=@iname.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:17:00 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 14:43 -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
> One of the reasons that registrars are slow to take down sites that are paid
> with a credit card is because there is little financial incentive to do
> so.
Also there is the "customer numbers" affect, most often seen with public
companies or those seeking VC funding. Those registrars compete
heavily, none of them want to have negative "numbers", not even one
negative number.
-Jim P.
