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Originally Posted by central

OK, let us just assume you figure out some clever way to be able to stop registrars making an agreement with each registrant to acquire their domains at no cost if they choose not to renew. Everyone else, not being a registrar, will be able to make such an agreement it seems.

Anyway, most domain names will now be deleted. What will happen? All valuable domains will, as soon as they are deleted, be registered by the same pool of registrars. These registrars have partnered up with Snapnames, Pool, NameJet and so on. So all these domains will find their way to the same auctions but not one of these domain names will keep their age.

The .com registry: Verisign.com

central

Easy. That's the point of this thread.

All Registrars are governed by the Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA). If ICANN clarifies that agreement to explicitly forbid domain name warehousing and speculation, the registrar either follows the agreement or loses their ICANN accreditation.

The RAA is currently up for public comment until August 4th (see links above), if enough people who have a vested interest in this (like any domainer who bids in dropped names auctions) will take 2 minutes and send an email, this garbage might just be stopped.

If that happens, domainers will have a much more level playing field.