Feb. 16, 2018
6:52 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 01:48:17PM -0500, allison nixon wrote:
You know what else might work? price floors. Every time some low-reputation registrar has a sale, the Internet gets inundated.
I don't know whther you could mandate price floors (I supsect it'd be fixing under US law). But you could do something else: transparency. A mandate that a dataset available to anti abuse people contained the retain price (or maybe just the wholesale price would be good enough, I don't know) would allow scoring on the basis of low prices. You wouldn't necessarily have to have it on a per-domain basis. Simply getting price lists for periods broken out by registrars would be enough. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com