[ncdnhc-discuss] IMPORTANT: Need guidance from you regarding .org

[hans.klein at pubpolicy.gatech.edu]

At 06:17 PM 12/13/2001 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:

>5. ORG should be able to qualify registrars
>or otherwise contractually constrain their
>marketing practices in the sale of ORG names
>(opposed by registrars, favored by IPCC, GA
>and NCDNHC).
>
>The most important disagreement is #5.
>
>We could avoid a lot of debate if we were willing
>to allow any registrar to register names in .org and
>not try to regulate how they market it.

You could try to achieve the same goal by other means.

The goal we support is to discourage duplicative .COM registrations.

The current means being proposed is to regulate the behavior of registrars 
("qualify" them).

Instead, we could use simpler means.  The registry could define a sliding 
price scale for name registrations in .ORG.  Names registered in .ORG that 
are also registered in .COM would have to pay a significantly higher 
registration fee (10x?).  That higher fee would discourage duplicative 
registrations.

Hans