[98564] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Mon Aug 13 15:43:34 2007
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:11:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <46C0A524.8030805@personnelware.com>
To: Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Carl Karsten wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Not just that, they want registrars to take a revenue cut.
>
> I am assuming that
> A. a registrar would get less business being "less forgiving" than others.
> B. a registrar gets revenue from tasted domains that taste good.
I think the policy change would most likely be at the ICANN level or
perhaps at the registry level. I got the impression that the current
policy 'loophole' was at the registry or ICANN level already. So, this
would probably
>
> I see no finical incentive for a registrar to change their policy.
>
because they are often part of the tasting ... so they don't want to cut
off their revenue stream, which in no way touches grandma-jones and her
typo'd domain purchase, fyi.
