On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Gomes, Chuck wrote: > Your idea below is interesting. How would you propose collecting the $1 > from those who only apply? First of all, give J.C. Dill credit for the idea. Next, you would only accept applications from known verified entities. In other words, we would all have to go through some kind of process to validate our existence with the Internic before you would accept an application from us. For grandfathering purposes, you could consider anyone who has ever paid with a credit card or a check to be validated. The reason for validation is so that in the case of application spamming, you know who to chase after with a credit agency or small claims court. Now once I am validated with the Internic and have recieved my NIC handle (MD130 is mine) I can then register domain names at the rate of $69 for the first two years and $34 for annual renewals plus teh $1 application fee in each instance. It would even be reasonable to charge something like $5 for the validation process and NIC handle in the first place. Assuming this system is in place, when you receive an application without a valid handle, you bounce it back. If the handle is valid but not associated with the given domain, you bounce it back. But when you havea valid handle for the given domain, you accept the application and charge a $1 fee. However, if you receive more than x applications for a single domain you start bouncing them all back out of concern for your customer's financial well-being and your own concern about being able to collect the fees. The number x could be something like 20 or 25. Admittedly, bouncing back a stream of thousands of applications per day will take a toll on the servers, but once the word gets around that spamming the NIC makes no economic or practical sense, then it will stop. -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
