At 1/5/02 2:21 PM, William X Walsh wrote: >This is a red herring issue, and totally out of the scope of the issue >at hand.
Hmmm? We're discussing various proposals for handling expired names. The justification that's been put forth for most of these schemes (as opposed to doing nothing) is that some "solution" is necessary because the registry can't handle the demand, leading to ugly interim solutions where third parties like SnapNames are making money by monopolizing connections so they can sell expiring names to fourth parties for an inflated price, while making it virtually impossible for anyone to get one of these names by going through the party that's actually supposed be selling them to the public (registrars). So I don't see how my observation that your solution leaves the "registry can't handle the demand for expired names" problem in place is a red herring. It seems to be the very crux of the issue, because if you could solve that problem in a technical manner so that a normal person could attempt to buy an expiring name from a registrar and feel he had a reasonably fair chance of getting it, a major justification for all these schemes would disappear. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
