At 9/12/03 6:26 AM, elliot noss wrote: >This is EXACTLY what the secondary market participants are doing right >now. The secondary market has evolved well away from buying names for >resale (although this certainly does happen and in large numbers) and >towards capturing large pools of names and monetizing the latent >traffic... > >The most lucrative misspellings and unrenwed names belong to, and will >continue to go to, the pros. Verisign is now trying to grab the rest.
The difference is that Verisign is trying to do it without paying the domain registration fee for each possible misspelling that all other secondary market participants have to pay. They have a significant and inherent advantage over all other players in this market due to their monopoly control of the registry. This is exactly the sort of thing that antitrust laws are designed to prevent. If they had to pay the registry fee that everyone else paid, I can almost guarantee they wouldn't be considering it, certainly not on this scale. Registry operators should not be allowed to make money off unregistered domain names. Period. Both WLS and this scheme are simple registry monopoly abuses. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
