[98685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Kumari)
Wed Aug 15 13:19:59 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070815144649.GI4820@afilias.info>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:38:44 -0400
To: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 01:41:17PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
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>> The real way to get rid of tasting would be to persuade Google and
>> Yahoo/Overture to stop paying for clicks on pages with no content
>> other than ads, but that would be far too reasonable.
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> Another way would be to eliminate all registrar grace periods, which
> is a significant part of making tasting profitable. But I don't think
> the registrars would allow such a change.
Or to penalize registrars based upon the number of returns.
Many moons ago I worked for a registrar -- at the time a large number
of domains were registered using false / stolen credit cards -- this
led to a large number of charge-backs. The credit card companies
raised the rates that they charged us and threatened to stop
servicing us if we didn't fix this -- suddenly a lot more effort was
dedicated to confirming registrations, card info, etc. and the number
of charge-backs dropped well below the requirements.
Somewhere earlier in the thread I saw some statistic that 0.6% of
domain deleted during the grace period were legitimate (whatever that
means -- I also saw 5% somewhere else...). If a registrar's continued
ability to operate was based upon keeping this number low, each
registrar could make up their own policies to fix this issue -- they
could create a "restocking fee" or non-refundable processing fee or
come up with some method to verify the registrant or... If a
registrar exceeds whatever the threshold is they would start
incurring additional fees (either for all registrations or just for
deletions or something) -- under extreme cases their license could be
yanked.
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