Scott.L
Top Contributor
I've coined the phased Ransomware policy because it does (in my opinion) capture the way auDA has designed their conflicted names policy.
auDA should rethink charging an admin fee for an escrow service on conflicted names because it's actually, RANSOMEWARE POLICY - defined as, holding multiple registrants hostage to the expectation they will get a product when they keep paying for it until everyone else stops paying for it
Example:
3 registrants are after 1 exact match domain across 3 different name spaces each pay an undisclosed admin fee (let's say $10) that's collectively $30 per year for 1 domain which none have actually acquired for use.
Now let's multiply by 3 years, that's $90 raised for a domain that doesn't exist except in escrow.
Now let's say, in the 4th year, 2 registrants don't renew, auDA has charged these people a yearly fee for a domain name they could never receive.
Now multiply that by 90,000 conflicted domains with possibly 250,000 people involved.
= BIGGEST SCAM ON EARTH.
auDA should rethink charging an admin fee for an escrow service on conflicted names because it's actually, RANSOMEWARE POLICY - defined as, holding multiple registrants hostage to the expectation they will get a product when they keep paying for it until everyone else stops paying for it
Example:
3 registrants are after 1 exact match domain across 3 different name spaces each pay an undisclosed admin fee (let's say $10) that's collectively $30 per year for 1 domain which none have actually acquired for use.
Now let's multiply by 3 years, that's $90 raised for a domain that doesn't exist except in escrow.
Now let's say, in the 4th year, 2 registrants don't renew, auDA has charged these people a yearly fee for a domain name they could never receive.
Now multiply that by 90,000 conflicted domains with possibly 250,000 people involved.
= BIGGEST SCAM ON EARTH.
