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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:22:54 -0400
On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I was just struck by a couple of statistics: [snip]In January 2007, according to PIR five registrars deleted 1,773,910 domainnames during the grace period and retained 10,862. That same month,VeriSign reported that among top ten registrars, 95% of all deleted .COMand .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.This seems like one problem with a simple solution. I am sure that someone will rapidly tell me why it won't work, but in an era when an airline will charge you $ 40 to $ 200 USD to correct
a typo, I don't see why this is excessive. Regard Marshall
[snip]http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=201500223 Having said that, Jay Westerdal mentioned on Sunday that: [snip]Today was the largest Domain Tasting day ever. We recorded over 8 MillionTransactions today. This is a new high. We have never seen 8 Milliontransactions on one day before. That would be either an add or delete. Over99 percent of these transactions are completely free and use the 5 daygrace period to test domain names for traffic before they are purchase fora long term buy. [snip] http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/08/biggest-domain-tasting-day-ever/ Although I'm not sure all of that 8M+ were actual "tasted", it does represent an astronomical number of registrations. Just a couple of data points. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGwPUBq1pz9mNUZTMRAlumAKD6t0AQS050YRaaxCqYomMWPDP6NgCgmSFO Frvz42ZtnHXYaRQ8hgXK4LA= =bvP6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy..., (continued)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Carl Karsten (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Dorn Hetzel (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Dorn Hetzel (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Andrew Sullivan (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Warren Kumari (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Marshall Eubanks (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... John Levine (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Marshall Eubanks (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... John L (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... william(at)elan.net (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Dorn Hetzel (Aug 16)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Marshall Eubanks (Aug 14)