[98613] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Aug 14 04:31:19 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:50:32 GMT
To: tme@multicasttech.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com> wrote:
>On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>
>>
>> I was just struck by a couple of statistics:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> 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.
=2E.. or both.
I think I could live with that, all things being equal.
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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