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Dirk

25c hey? Well perhaps if we didn't have to cope with the monstrosity of a transfer system that ICANN and Verisign have landed us with.

After many years they have effectively reinvented a sender push style domain transfer without the simplicity of a true sender push like Nominet use for ".uk".

I'd so love to do a ".simple" where people register their own details with a private key they generate, first come first served, and if they lose the private key - well tough. But I don't think ICANN would allow that, and I'm sure the lawyers wouldn't.

My own top level domain, .ewe, (not found in the NTIA/ICANN root zone) uses a business model that rejects even more of the artifical restraints that have developed under ICANN.

For example, in .ewe one registers forever for one price.

Registrations in .ewe are anonymous and transfers of ownership are accomplished outside of the .ewe registry.

.ewe places no restriction on the names beyond uniqueness and adherence to hostname character set and IDN prefix limitations.  In particular, .ewe leaves trademark enforcement up to the courts.

.ewe charges for services, such as NS record updates - in other words .ewe generates revenue from services, not from rental fees.

See more at The .ewe Business Model - or - It's Just .Ewe and Me, .Kid(s)

The cut of the prices was announced by Eurid prior to the landrush of .eu already and was sceduled for the one million domains originally. After having more than two million domains they made their promise true finally which is fair I guess. Besides that I agree absoloutely that the customer should not get aware of the actual prices of domains and that the "magic" of domains should remain ...

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