Tony Owen [tony§seol.net.au] wrote: > > has traffic and removing risk, an abuse of the system? surely thats a > > smart > > thing to do? > > Vic, > > Do you agree registrars would have an advantage over 'the man in the street' > if AUDA allowed the the same scope as happens in the .com domain space? advantage in what sense? price? registrars always have a price advantage on domains irrespective of use. is it abuse if a registrant pays $140 for a name, when that registrar pays wholesale for its own name? thats not abuse. maybe the time invovled in shopping around doesnt justify the cheaper prices that could be had elsewhere. maybe the registrant is happy to pay a premium because of trust with that registrar. who knows. you cant just label a price difference between wholesale and retail abuse. some registrants will happily pay 10s of thousands for a name. thats not abuse. look at it this way, by not allowing tasting you are forcing monetisers to sit on names far longer then need be. again I have no problem with tasting, until someone shows me some actual harm to registrants. VicReceived on Tue Aug 22 2006 - 13:15:33 UTC
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