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["John Kozlowski \(ShofarDomain.com\)" <John.Kozlowski AT ShofarDomain.com>]

We need to separate the issues, and a rootless approach makes that possible.

 

We offer Open TLDs (http://shofardomain.com/TLD,Open) that offer the sales model and yes that opens the door to speculators buying a bunch of domains for resale at a higher price.  With the coming of ICANN’s new TLDs that market is going to change.  Those that use domains for spam typically buy and then return them so their cost is little to none.  This is the ICANN policy playing into their hand.  We don’t offer that option.  Other TLDs can make their own terms.

 

If you don’t want this model, use ICANN or your choice of alternative roots.  Rootless allows this to be your choice.

 

What we are building into our resolver is the ability for yourself or a third party to act as an intermediary that can provide additional information or even redirection on a case by case basis.  For example when validating an email you can return the age of the domain, even a dot com, an alternative IP, or other options.

 

The objective here is not a single consensus model but the ability to have individual efforts, organizational efforts, or consensus based efforts available for the end user.

John Kozlowski

http://ShofarDomain.com Email: John.Kozlowski AT ShofarDomain.com Phone: +1 (423) 716-6432 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShofarDomain Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShofarDomain YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ShofarDomain

 

From: discuss-request AT lists.opennicproject.org [mailto:discuss-request AT lists.opennicproject.org] On Behalf Of Quinn Wood
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 7:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] ShofarDomain's rootless domain system

 

Namecoin didn't work not because of an ownership vs. rental model, but because of the introduction of a root with zero taken domains which attracted few people which intended to actually use the domain and many who intended to domain squat. Even OpenNIC's standard TLDs have that problem, a ownership based system with low prices means these squatters never leave.

If a rootless domain system has the ability for the other members of the network to consensually decide someone's DNS record is squatting/spam/otherwise unacceptable, it has a higher chance of succeeding. This would indeed be worth doing.