[At-Large] [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Establishes Forum on Allocation Methods for Single-letter and Single-digit Domain Names

[Adam Peake]

At 11:56 AM -0400 10/18/07, John L wrote:
>  > For the sake of argument, on what right would ICANN claim that money as its
>>  own?
>
>You beat me to it.  This wouldn't be the first auction of high value
>domains, and in the past the money's always gone to the registry or
>registrar.  I can't imagine Verisign agreeing to an ICANN auction of .com
>or .net domains.


What cases?  (genuine question, pretty clueless about this!)

Registries have auctioned names under new tlds, and registrars 
acquire names and then re-sell them.  But these single letters would 
be names from a reserved list, not different?  Which of all 
accredited registrars would have a right above any other?

Does Verisign own the com namespace?


>The reality, of course, is that no matter what the nominal procedure is,
>there will be auctions.  The only question is who gets the money.


So why not ICANN / a trust fund.  Once technical criteria were met, 
ORG was assigned on the basis of promised good works.

Adam




>R's,
>John
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