----- Original Message ----- From: "James M Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gordon Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Robert L Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [domains-gen] Domain Auction: Money transfers?
> Gordon, > > we're still a few months away from launching we are working on our > delivery plan as we speak. I will request that we include a type of > visual to assist in illustrating the process. > That will be very helpful especially as it can be shown to registrants if they want to know how it works. >> The problem is going to be contacting the registrants as we know from >> experience that 40% of them have invalid email addresses in the whois >> mainly >> ue to changing email provider and not updating it or telling us through >> any >> of our systems. > > This is the behavior that we expect will change once registrants > understand that an expiring domain name has value. what you see as a > problem I see as an opportunity that will work itself out by taking the > market to a new level of mindset. Registrants will take greater care of > their contacts and or renew the domain is the perception is that it has > value. It may help renewal rates. Do you happen to know what the renewal rate is for com net org biz and info ? .uk is about 60% renewal rate according to Nominet. > What you describe further on in your email is not auction but rather the > parked page product. > > You will have the flexibility to customize the headers of these pages > with your branding and links of your choosing, Well thats useful. > the main portion of the page however will contain advertising. As long as the advertising is not controversial or hijackable (e.g. Tucows selling the space to a third party who put porn in the ad rotation). I saw something like this happen recently. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
