On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Carl Karsten wrote:
So, to be clear folks want to make it much more difficult for grandma-jones to return the typo'd: mygramdkids.com for mygrandkids.com right?
Not just that, they want registrars to take a revenue cut.
I am assuming that A. a registrar would get less business being "less forgiving" than others. B. a registrar gets revenue from tasted domains that taste good.
I think the policy change would most likely be at the ICANN level or perhaps at the registry level. I got the impression that the current policy 'loophole' was at the registry or ICANN level already. So, this would probably
I see no finical incentive for a registrar to change their policy.
because they are often part of the tasting ... so they don't want to cut off their revenue stream, which in no way touches grandma-jones and her typo'd domain purchase, fyi.