[98559] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Mon Aug 13 14:57:04 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0708131801360.21180@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:40:32 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:
>
>>
>> That's exactly the problem.... "the goal of tasting is to collect pay
>> per click ad revenue"...
>>
>> Ten years ago the internet was for porn, now it's for
>> MLM/Affiliate/PPC scams. As long as we put up with companies abusing
>> the Internet as long as they are making a buck, they'll keep doing
>> it.
>
> to be very clear, this 'domain tasting' (no matter if you like it
> or not)
> is just using a 'loophole' in the policy/purchase that's there for the
> safe guarding of normal folks. It just happens that you can decide
> within
> 5 days that you don't want a domain or 1 million domains...
>
> So, to be clear folks want to make it much more difficult for
> grandma-jones to return the typo'd: mygramdkids.com for
> mygrandkids.com
> right?
If grandma-jones orders custom stationery and doesn't
manage to spell her name correctly, she'll end up with
misspelled stationery. The main difference is that
a misspelled domain name is likely to be a much cheaper
mistake than misspelled stationery.
A question to the registrars here: What fraction of legitimate
domain registrations are reversed because the customer
didn't know how to spell, and noticed that within the five
day "dictionary time"?
Cheers,
Steve
