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

[Dave Crocker]

At 06:40 PM 12/13/2001 -0500, hans.klein at pubpolicy.gatech.edu wrote:
>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.

An interesting idea.  Unfortunately it would be essentially impossible to 
enforce.

For example, imagine that I wanted to register brandenburg.org (if it were 
available.)  Unless you put into place an enormously powerful and expensive 
mechanism -- and probably not even then -- it would be trivial to 
defeat.  How could you tell that this new registration belongs to the same 
entity that already had brandenburg.com?

For example, if I have my wife register, the name of the registrant will be 
entirely unrelated.

d/


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