Bhavin, The forgiveness component consists of two criteria: 1. Fewer than 350,000 names under management, and 2. A ratio of attempted add commands to successful add commands of less than 200 to 1. So at least the top 20 or so registrars will still not qualify for forgiveness. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Bhavin Turakhia [mailto:bhavin.t@logicboxes.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:43 PM To: 'Tim Ruiz'; 'Bhavin Turakhia'; 'Registrars Constituency' Subject: RE: [registrars] Verisign batch pool advisory
So while option 1 may not be ideal either, for now, it will make the usefulness of the *phantom* registrars pretty much nil.
Also, with Network Solutions' and Tucows' intention to offer a secondary market service to registrants with expiring/deleting names, far less valuable names are going to actually hit the drop list anyway. So I think the future value of the batch pool is going to change dramatically.
My greater concern is that implementing 1 will result in a situation where icann will not meet its budget sinc everyone will match the forgiveness criteria. Im still out on the road all of this week and will only be back in office after 2 weeks ..... And therefore will be a lil quiet :) -B