On 19/04/2016 06:40, Dave Warren wrote:
On 2016-04-18 10:38, Michael Peddemors wrote:
Registrars paid a lot of money to be able to offer TLD's and they
shouldn't really be punished just because they are cheaper than other
domains.
Personally, I'm going to start adding points to any TLD that offers
first-year-cheap discounts as these attract spammers and other rats
who want disposable domains but don't care about generating long-term
domains. .biz and .info poisoned their respective wells doing this,
and now others are following. I understand your point, but I disagree:
Their success with a poorly selected business model is not my problem.
I'm not saying a TLD can't run promotions, but rather, that the
upfront cost shouldn't be it, I'd be fine with a TLD doing
second-year-free or similar.
I agree. The TLD registries need to choose - either they want quality
and a good reputation, where good customers will use their domains, so
they have at least some system in place to try to ensure the 'quality'
of their registrants (eg registrant data validation), or they want quick
money, accept any registrant and thus must accept the consequence that
their TLD is treated as trash.
It's their choice.
The same already applies to hosting companies and MSPs who let spammers
use their networks - they get put on block RBL blacklists.
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