[NA-Discuss] Budget provisions relating to Domain Tasting

[Michael Maranda]

The small unrefundable fee .ORG (PIR) charges eliminated the (bulk of the)
problems they faced as a result of tasting on .org domains.   It is hoped
that this  $0.22 measure would have similar effect.  It's worth the try, but
it probably doesnt go far enough.  The At-Large position should be to
support this budgetary measure, and also to investigate other policy
options, including removing the AGP option entirely.

More important to me is addressing the "tasting" that occurs during the drop
period.  We should not neglect this dimension of tasting practices.

The arguments presented from the floor as to why AGP is still necessary and
useful seemed terribly weak.  They presented abuse scenarios as a basis to
maintain AGP... i.e. a Registrar being hacked and domains purchased under
it's name... Such scenario should be the basis for invoking criminal legal
system, and could be cause for exceptions to process/refund as opposed to an
automatic right of the registrar to return a domain.

I do agree with Randy that pricing on domains should not be going up.  The
gentleman from Tucows was very much on the mark.   The arguments of
inflation etc were specious.  Processing power, bandwidth,
communications/telecom expenses should all be going down down down.

The small increase may seem trivial, but the principle is more important.

-- MM
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