[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Gross Deletes

[John L]

> The user is the endpoint of this process.  However, I don't think the users
> know they are affected.  I feel they are affected in a couple ways, 1- the
> domain requested is more likely to resolve if it is parked at a ppc
> provider.  2- they may be misled by typos and the like (phishing), but not
> necessarily unique to this matter.  3- unreliability of the dns, one day
> it's here, next day it's not.

Don't forget the loss of user choice.  Before domain tasting, you could 
configure your software to use any typo correction system you want, or 
none at all.  Now you get sold to the highest bidder.

> To be more consistant, I think ICANN should introduce a one-size fits all
> for the different categories of TLD, meaining ccTLDs should have a set of
> rules and gTLDs should have a similar but unrelated set.

ICANN doesn't set rules for ccTLDs, and I'm not aware of any ccTLD with 
anything like ICANN's AGP so that's not at issue.

I agree that in order to avoid putting some registries at a disadvantage 
relative to others, they all should have the same rule.  If we can't get 
rid of the AGP, which never solved an important problem, I like Bob 
Parsons' suggestion to make the 75c ICANN fee nonrefundable.

R's,
John