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4/23/2002 3:03:27 AM
Posted By: Rick Brown


All of the registration firms are heavily into, let's call it "marketing." I got a call from the firm that registered our domains asking if we were sure we wanted to let some expire that we decided we would never have a use for. Well, it could have sounded like a simple friendly reminder if I hadn't also been told we are now on the company's "V.I.P." list. I didn't even bother to ask what that meant because it sounded too much like a cold reading from a sales script, not like I was a V.I.P. at all. *Sniffle*

And what about the registration firms which were accused of holding domains after they've expired? Is that still going on? At one time, there were allegations that at least one registration company was hoarding expired domains instead of throwing them back into the public "hopper" where any registration firm could sell them. If that dispute was settled, I missed it.

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