To add, I am not saying it be banned or heavily regulated, but if it is a sort of "speculation", there can be a minimum set of rules for trading such commodity or asset as are common in most commodity trading or asset/financil trading. However, since gTLD space has essentially no national jurisdiction, it is not easy to come up with that kind of rules to be in place. Thus current state is largely "laissez-faire" which I am not sure is the best way for the long run. This may not be the direct concern of the ordinary Internet users in their every day use of Internet, but I think it is in the realm of "Pubilc Interest" for which individuals are laregely affected as an aggregated actor. izumi 2007/3/29, Roberto Gaetano <roberto@icann.org>:
RJGlass | America@Large wrote:
I would bet that the largest customer base of all registrars is the domain monetizer or speculator. I believe it is by far the largest segment of the industry. There is nothing illegal, immoral, or otherwise negative about this segment of the industry.
That's correct. However, from the registrant/user point of view, they don't seem to provide any added value, quite the contrary, the only effect is to reduce the set of available names for other uses.
Cheers, Roberto
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