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Hash: SHA1I was just struck by a couple of statistics:
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In January 2007, according to PIR five registrars deleted 1,773,910
domain
names during the grace period and retained 10,862. That same month,
VeriSign reported that among top ten registrars, 95% of all
deleted .COM
and .Net domain names were the result of domain tasting.So, if they charged a $ 1 "return fee," they would either
- produce revenues of several million USD per month (unlikely) or
- cut domain tasting by about 2 orders of magnitude.... or both.
I think I could live with that, all things being equal.
- - ferg
It's not uncommon for companies to not charge good customers for minor incidental things, like fixing a
typo; I think that most would reconsider that policy if they were hit with 8 million "minor" changes in a
day, which it seems is where we are. That has to cost something.
I haven't heard a good reason why not to do this. If IANA can't use the money the IETF can.
Regards
Marshall