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The Gtld (American) model

Discussion in 'Drop catching Domain Names' started by Bailey, May 3, 2012.

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  1. Bailey United Kingdom

    Bailey Well-Known Member

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    I for one would welcome an internal (registration services being able to renew and resell expired domains ) domain catching/holding service for uk domains, with the profile it would bring to the UK resale market. ie same as the Gtld market

    Anyone else agree ?
     
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    I think it could work well but I would like to see it being done by nominet so that none of the registrars would gain a monopoly
     
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    What American model?

    Collaborative registrar's pooling resources (under contract) with a privately owned retail auction house?

    No ones stopping that from happening in the .uk space.
     
  5. Bailey United Kingdom

    Bailey Well-Known Member

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    I understand where your coming from - But, Nominet is hardly a Savvy Market entity (No offence meant)

    In house, allows those that have 'access' (after expiry) to work and 'gar ner' the market with an appropriate market spend (as we see in the US)
     
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    If nominet split the sale price 50/50 with the registrar who had the domain it would be an incentive to push a nominet auction site
     
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    Edwin Well-Known Member

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    It would also be an incentive for flaky registrars to "lose" the domain renewal reminder notices on desirable domains, fail to process renewal payments, etc. 50% of potentially "quite a lot" brings out the worst in the kind of people for whom money is the only score, and ethics is a place north of London.
     
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    Think they should post a cheque with 50% of the funds to the previous registrant! :p
     
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    No. The incentive of the big players to 'tweak' their systems to their advantage would be overwhelming. We've already seen with the £40 fiasco this week and 10yr price hikes just how reliable / moral these lot are! Let alone just how the US based .uk registrars would treat this. In their terms it would be a 'turkey shoot!'.

    As I've stated in the past the current registrant contract is between the registrant and Nominet, and should stay that way. Registrars are simply middlemen with discounts.

    Allowing contractual rights to an expired .uk domain to registrars would need a wholesale change to the current contract - including informing all current 10M registrants - and would lead to a slippery slope of the big players monopolising and effectively controlling .uk. Not that they already don't with the voting rules!

    No, no, and thrice no. I'd rather Nominet be a 'less commercially savvy' entity but ploughing their own long furrow than go alon with their own US style 'special relationship'. There's nothing beneficial IMO with the .com system.

    At the end of the day Nominets primary responsibility is to the registrants and not the registrars. Nominet are a non-for profit entity. Registrars most certainly are not....

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    Indeed. I'll be making my views known...

    The first sniff the big (and non-so-big) .uk registrars get at being able to manipulate the market to their advantage they'll jump on it and damn the tiny people they trample on in the process...
     
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    monaghan Well-Known Member

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    Please do make your views known, the more the "little guys" speak up, the bigger collective voice there will be.
     
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