On 6 June 2012 15:54, Greg Soffe
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We’ve been burnt so many times by squatters it’s not funny (probably more than anyone else in NZ). We have to register patents & companies through shells & representatives just so we don’t have to pay megabucks to domain squatters (who register domains moments before we do) every time we want to do something public. Doing that costs stack loads.
How many of these incidents have affected operational requirements for hosting content or delivering a product or service? How much damage actually occurs when you have to put something as a $SomeNewProduct.<EXISTINGDOMAIN> sub-domain, instead of an idealised $SomeNewProduct? The only time I could see this actually costing money is if the marketing department got a tad ahead of itself or made a hard nosed branding decision and printed/produced materials with $SomeNewProduct FQDN embedded in it. Whilst I can completely understand this this is in effect an argument for the Identity proposition I put forward in a previous post - Domains are a representation of identity and there is a large chunk of orgs/people who see that a TLD of .nz more adequately reflects their identity. Same reason I presume the marketing boffins would like to see $SomeNewProduct launch page have it's own domain. As for registrations are we not back to the argument that the DNS registry has some sort of inherent semantic information embedded in the hierarchy. I thought we had clearly established it does not (anymore at least), any sort of verification linked to this seems silly as it creates bespoke cases. @Ewan : Suggestion of increased pricing model for .co.nz etc, based on a barrier to entry argument ... I think the idea has some merit! How about if we work out an algorithm and for those tld which there is a higher number of registered domains (representing increased demand) and we simply create a sliding scale for cost... Higher demand = increased scarcity = increased cost... should solve a bunch of other problems at the same time - world hunger comes to mind.