I think he means that if no registrars decided to sell
domains in your tld,
a restriction against you selling them yourself would be
disastrous.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that is what I thought he meant.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl CaveBear.com>
To: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomesverisign.com>
Cc: "Prophet Partners Inc." <DomainsProphetPartners.com>;
<gagnso.icann.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Tiered (Variable) Pricing
> Gomes, Chuck wrote:
>
> > Also, this should not be taken as a criticism of
registrars. They have
> > the right to make their own business decisions
with respect to what TLDs
> > they want to sell.
>
> Modulo the fact that at the time we became locked-into
a given
> registry/TLD we had no real choices (except to refrain
from using the
> net) and that thus we are captive customers who deserve
protection.
>
> I'm all for allowing businesses to make choices - but
some of us aren't
> even being allowed to be in the business at all (e.g.
my .ewe TLD or
> IOD's .web).
>
> At the same time, affected registries should not be
> > held hostage by registrars who elect not to
support their TLD.
>
> My brain may have faded - but how does a registrar hold
a registry
> hostage? (I bet the answer is obvious and I know it
and that I'm about
> to have a "I could'a had a V8" moment.)
>
> --karl--
>
>
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