> I picked on example, there have been plenty of examples in the past of > folks just barely able to come up with 7$/yr for domain registration and > using donated hosting for their non-profit thing.
It's a shame, they can probably find other benefactors. I doubt there are many cases though so is the benefit to those few worth the cost to the masses? > there is consumer protection today in the purchase system, do we want > to remove that in the future. Or do we want to find another method to > crack down on this problem without hurting consumers? I've not noticed any registrars offering to refund Still, plenty of smart people are controlling this so either it's a terribly hard problem or they feel it's better this way. I'm sure they could come up with a compromise such as registrars only get the refund if they do less than x% per month, the genuine refunds are likely to fit within a small x that makes the tasting not worthwhile. brandon
