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Originally Posted by bb99  Hmm - if it was done by Nominet, it could be fed through to all the registrars via the DAC. So if you're checking the availability but it's registered (and it's for sale), the DAC also returns the fact it's on the aftermarket and the price.
So all the big boys like 123, 1&1, etc would have access to the inventory and be able to market to people searching for domains.
It's a win win! |
Yep, that's a perfectly credible scenario. And if the registrar that brings the buyer gets a cut of the proceeds (e.g. by credits offset against their Nominet billing, with cash payment adjustments if necessary) then that's a huge incentive for registrars to cooperate.
The bigger the registrar, the larger the potential payoff. Done really well, the aftermarket revenue share that a large registrar was entitled to might even come to dwarf their registration/renewal fee revenue - and it's 100% "found money" as they would have to do almost nothing at all to claim their share of it, except for tweak their Whois/registration process a little to account for the possibility of names being indicated as for sale on the aftermarket.
So instead of an available/registered indication, they would provide an available/for sale/registered indication - with the "for sale" taking clients over to Nominet's central platform for the sale.
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