Here are a couple of answers to the question I posed about Verisign’s attempt to own the “Domain Waiting List” market. Right now, you can sign up with various companies to claim existing domain names if and when they are not renewed. I wondered in my blog what happened if two people both claimed, say, “amazon.com” using different services and that domain became available. Who would win? And is that the problem that Verisign is proposing to solve, enriching itself in the process?

Udhay Shankar says, yes Verisign’s solution would solve the problem “for those people who don’t have expensive lawyers, and who can’t move WIPO or whatever. This would probably exclude Jeff Bezos. ;-)

The One True b!X writes:

Verisign is attempting to regain too much control. As it stands right now, what you sign up for with waiting list services as they currently exist is a service in which the company will TRY to snag your desired domain once it returns to the pool of available domains.

Verisign’s proposal creates a waiting list service (provided soley by themselves and SnapNames) which will take precedence — if someone “reserves” a domain thru it, they are guaranteed to get it when it becomes available, because it doesn’t return to the general pool of available domain names, where it can be competed for.

You can register your opinion at ICANN until the end of July, and you can sign an online petition against the Verisign proposal here.

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