Comment Worries (Score 2) 108
There are several issues that worry me here.
Firstly and most importantly the fact that NSI continue to run the master database. Whatever they may say about competing fairly with their new counterparts they have an underlying advantage; users are likely to think that the company running the system is somehow *better* than the rest.
Secondly has been some confusion recently about the status of domain names. Are they property or not ? This has implications here as well. If we treat them as property, as a judge did recently, then renewal fees would surley have to be paid to the original registry, in effect you are renting the property from NSI at the moment. However if they are not property but a license to use the domain then any registry could renew it. This, I think, will have the most impact on the ability of the other registries to compete with NSI.
Finally what happens when someone ceases to use a domain ? or when someone sells a domain ? None of these issues appear to have been addressed. Can any registry sell a domain that has lapsed from another registry ? Can a company sell a domain and do the transfer to a different registry ? If not NSI have a lock in on all domains registered to this point.
If any of these issuse have been addressed I'd be interested in a URL.
Firstly and most importantly the fact that NSI continue to run the master database. Whatever they may say about competing fairly with their new counterparts they have an underlying advantage; users are likely to think that the company running the system is somehow *better* than the rest.
Secondly has been some confusion recently about the status of domain names. Are they property or not ? This has implications here as well. If we treat them as property, as a judge did recently, then renewal fees would surley have to be paid to the original registry, in effect you are renting the property from NSI at the moment. However if they are not property but a license to use the domain then any registry could renew it. This, I think, will have the most impact on the ability of the other registries to compete with NSI.
Finally what happens when someone ceases to use a domain ? or when someone sells a domain ? None of these issues appear to have been addressed. Can any registry sell a domain that has lapsed from another registry ? Can a company sell a domain and do the transfer to a different registry ? If not NSI have a lock in on all domains registered to this point.
If any of these issuse have been addressed I'd be interested in a URL.
