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Re: [ICANN-EU] first penal court ruling
- To: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
- Subject: Re: [ICANN-EU] first penal court ruling
- From: Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:06:17 +0200 (MEST)
- cc: icann-europe@fitug.de
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- In-Reply-To: <slrn8sefdg.n7b.lutz@belenus.iks-jena.de>
- Sender: owner-icann-europe@fitug.de
On 19 Sep 2000, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> * Marc Schneiders wrote:
[...]
> > The depiction of those who trade in domain names as villains, originates
> > with those large companies that discovered the internet late, and now
> > find that names they want are taken. Bad luck. Let them pay for what they
> > want, like when they want to take over something else: at the market
> > price, not for the WIPO fee.
>
> Ack for the resaoning, nack for the usage of the DNS as a trading good. DNS
> is too important to misuse it in that way (legally or not).
Yes, art, houses, land are all far less important than DNS. So making
money on those is not as bad as making money on a domain name.
> > As for personal names: it does not make any difference whether another
> > Lutz has registered lutz.de or a speculator. You can't get it anymore.
>
> Not registering it eases the technical maintaince. Please do not ignore that.
What do you mean exactly? The fact that there must by DNS records for
those domains thta are not used? Then let them be registered without.
Most of the time the DNS is done on some server that does a very great
bunch of idle domains. Hosts like ns29.worldnic.com. I suppose they do not
get that many queries :-)
Of course, I do understand they make the gtld-zones larger than
necessary. Solution: discontinue obligatory nameservers with registration.
> > the speculator. This does not make speculation good. It indicates that
> > speculation is not the root of all evil in domain names.
>
> Right, the root of all evil are marketing droids with a major oxygen
> insufficiency. They provided a market on SLDs.
Well, I once tried to convince someone who thought that thinking of a good
name first and making money out of that, was wrong. I did this by
comparing it to marketing. Neither add anything useful. It is just a name
or a slogan. His reply was: "Marketing people add value, they educate the
user." It made me give up on him.
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Marc Schneiders (the rest is in the header)
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