Wednesday, Wednesday, January 09, 2002, 9:31:34 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

> Your message of Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:46:42 -0800 (PST):

>> It's a lottery --- lotteries are subject to laws.

> .info and .biz Landrushes were no problem, so this argument is void. The 
> .biz Sunrise was only a problem because you could increase your chances 
> with money. I doubt that there would be any problem with a fair random 
> "lottery".

> If you make the price
>> free, you'll suddenly have 10,000,000 fake people signing up from
>> China.

> What does it matter? Charge $1 processing fee.

That is the problem.  That is what makes it an illegal lottery scheme.
They pay only for the chance to get something.  That is what made the
.biz scheme a problem.



>> 
>> > Because all those dropping names are known there *is* no FCFS, FCFS 
>> 
>> There *is* currently a FCFS system
>>

> As I explained, there cannot be a FCFS for already existing names, *by 
> definition*.

Yes, there can.  The existing system does that just fine.

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