Well, if they only delete 89% instead of 99.9% then to make 1,000,000 tasted registrations they will have to keep 100,000 of them, which will send a fair amount of money to the registry. Effectively making the minimum registration costs for tasting 10% of the normal cost.
On 8/16/07, william(at)elan.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, John L wrote: > > > > >>> The .ORG registry asked last year for permission to charge 5 cents per > >>> deletion to any registrar that deletes more than 90% of their > >>> registrations. > >> > >> I don't like that so much. Complications invite gaming the system. > > Yes, they are just going to delete 89% of their registrations. > > > It has the practical advantage of already having been implemented. > > What is important is not if it has been implemented but how effective > it has been. But unfortunately with just one TLD, its possible that > positive info can not be relied on as given limitations bad registrants > could have just moved to using other TLDs that do not have the limits). > > Personally I think one way to do attempt to deal with it is to require > explanation for each and every registration that is deleted and then > look overall at types of explanations given and put additional barriers > for certain cases (i.e. paperwork, etc) plus capability of ICANN to do > audits of registrars deleted domains to verify that explanations they > are given are consistent with actual activity. > > -- > William Leibzon > Elan Networks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >