[NA-Discuss] Fwd: Edits and comments to NARALO/ALAC position statement on GAC scorecard

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

Richard,

Agree that the NeuStar / .CO business plan will not cause the IPC 
exceptional nosebleeds and hysterics, but that isn't the only metric 
for lack of proof of a utility and necessity claim.

Any data on the ppc density among the 900k?

Given the renewal price point for the secondary market actors acting 
as pseudo-registrars, on the order 1.5 times the .CO price point for 
GA names (post landrush(es)) for .COM names with natural traffic, is 
there any reason to believe that the ad inventories placed in the 
o(1M) already "tasted" .CO properties aren't as sustaining as the ad 
inventories placed in the same ppc proven .COM properties?

It should be clear that finding a "public interest" rational for an 
increase in the number of sites having no utility other than the 
function of ad inventory outlets will require some cleverness.

Eric

On 4/1/11 3:52 PM, Richard Tindal wrote:
> John,
>
> I don't think there's any data showing a high degree of defensive registration in CO - which now has>900K domains
>
> The registry has been extremely vigilant about limiting that, and the $20 price point has made it expensive
> to squat (if the PPC value of the traffic the squatter gets is less than $20 per year it's a money losing proposition
> for them -  and very few new domains have>$20 in PPC value per year).
>
> The data I've seen, and it's not a complete analysis of the zone,  shows about the same level of squatting in CO as you see in
> BIZ and INFO - which is minimal
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:19 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
>
>>> What about the the 600K registrants in .CO?  Are they all either
>>> profiteers or deluded by smoke and mirrors?
>>
>> Wow, it just gets better.  We all know that .CO is full of defensive
>> registrations and typosquats.  If I could get .cmo or .c0m, I bet I could
>> get 600K registrations, too.  After all, it's less than 1% of the
>> registrations in .COM.
>>
>> I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader why anyone would pretend that
>> all wasn't obvious.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
>> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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