<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As best as I understand it, in the U.S. in some courts (circuits) domain names are treated as a property right and in others as a contract right. Perhaps one day the Supreme Court will be called upon to resolve the conflicting interpretation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">A Google search brings up various articles on the topic-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180628_domain_names_considered_contracts_for_service_or_property_rights/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180628_domain_names_considered_contracts_for_service_or_property_rights/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170202_are_domain_names_contract_of_services_or_property_rights/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170202_are_domain_names_contract_of_services_or_property_rights/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/14770020910959628/full/html?skipTracking=true">https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/14770020910959628/full/html?skipTracking=true</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/vol-3-no-1-1-abbott/">https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/vol-3-no-1-1-abbott/</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:19 AM Jonathan Zuck <<a href="mailto:JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org">JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since domain names are not actually “owned” but require constant renewal, isn’t the situation more akin to charging a premium to someone taking over a lease? All analogies are flawed, almost by definition, but this is the closest I’ve been
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">NA-Discuss <<a href="mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org" target="_blank">na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> on behalf of David Mackey <<a href="mailto:mackey361@gmail.com" target="_blank">mackey361@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 7:54 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Nat Cohen <<a href="mailto:ncohen@telepathy.com" target="_blank">ncohen@telepathy.com</a>><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [NA-Discuss] The societal harm of domaining, episode 413<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the information too. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm not sure your comparison between tickets and domain names satisfied my curiosity. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You state ... "In contrast, the pool of domain names are nearly infinite in number, the useful life is indefinite"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, I agree that the pool of domain names is nearly infinite, however, the pool of human relevant domain names is smaller than infinite. The value of a domain name is connected to the relevancy it has to humans (aka Brand Marketing). The
primary/secondary domain name market falls within human relevant domain names. The domain name primary/secondary market is not infinite. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The other point I'm not sure about relates to the "limited useful life" of a domain name vs. a ticket. Tickets are used to capture value for a real life event. Domain names are human constructs used to connect humans with computers. The
nature of a ticket is different from the nature of a domain name with respect to the determination of "useful life". The "useful life" of a domain name is governed by policy. Policies can be changed. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:20 AM Nat Cohen <<a href="mailto:ncohen@telepathy.com" target="_blank">ncohen@telepathy.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I may chime in-<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A scalper buys a ticket from a pool of tickets that are limited in number and that have a limited useful life - usually a couple of hours on a particular date. The ticket provides access to, and a source of funding to support the production
of, exclusive content provided by a presenter who charges a fee to experience that content - be it a concert, a performance, a race, a fight, etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In contrast, the pool of domain names are nearly infinite in number, the useful life is indefinite, and the domain names are not sold by the owners of exclusive content as the exclusive means to access that content. Domain names are an
alias for an online IP address. They are sold by a registry provider whose job it is to match certain contact information and name servers with a particular domain name. The character of domain names is much more similar to physical real estate which can
be bought and sold many times in the resale market. The role of a domain name registry is akin to that of a land registry not a concert promoter.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the past couple of weeks, I acquired <a href="http://lentes.com" target="_blank">
lentes.com</a> (Spanish for glasses) from the registrant who lives in Mexico and <a href="http://lentesdesol.com" target="_blank">
lentesdesol.com</a> (sunglasses in Spanish) from the registrant who lives in Colombia. They both no longer had a need for those domain names and valued the cash that I offered them more highly than continuing to own those domain names. I hope to sell these
domain names for more than I paid for them. In what way is this free functioning of the secondary market a problem or akin to ticket scalping?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 8:10 AM David Mackey <<a href="mailto:mackey361@gmail.com" target="_blank">mackey361@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just curious, do you think the Ticketmaster/Scalper relationship (primary/secondary market) for tickets is analogous to domain name markets?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:36 AM Evan Leibovitch <<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org" target="_blank">evan@telly.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">More grist for the mill -- why and how domaining hurts small business and entrepreneurs, and how it extracts value rather than adds:
<a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210210-now-we-know-why-its-hard-to-get-a-com/" target="_blank">
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210210-now-we-know-why-its-hard-to-get-a-com/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">All you domain speculators who fancy yourselves marketing experts and are camped out in NARALO because, I would guess, no other constituency will have you .... your turn. I see
that some have already posted lame rebuttals on CircleID, read them and have a chuckle. (It's still noteworthy that nobody I know in ICANN-land defends the practice except those with direct financial interest in it.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">(And thank you to the kind NARALO member who found the article, figuring that I might have more fun posting it here than they would. You're probably right.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Disclosure: I have never accepted money from AT&T or any other telco or ISP for that matter. My shitty mobile provider won't even give me a decent discount, but the others are
no better. I did win a T-shirt a few years ago from SiriusXM, does that count?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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