[98570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Karsten)
Mon Aug 13 16:49:57 2007
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:00:52 -0500
From: Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0708131912090.21180@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Chris L. Morrow wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Steve Atkins wrote:
>> On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Chris L. Morrow 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?
>> 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.
>
> I picked on example, there have been plenty of examples in the past of
> folks just barely able to come up with 7$/yr for domain registration and
> using donated hosting for their non-profit thing. I think the root isue
> is: there is consumer protection today in the purchase system, do we want
> to remove that in the future. Or do we want to find another method to
> crack down on this problem without hurting consumers?
Assuming a change takes place (which I doubt, but will ignore) I bet a small
non refundable fee (like $1) would drastically reduce the problem.
Carl K
