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Originally Posted by central

Now I’m curious. Where will you draw the line?

If I own a registrar, will I not be able to register any domains not related to domain name registering? What about my wife or my father? Will they be able to register domain names?

If I hold 30% of a registrar and 5% of a company holding domain names. What will happen? Will ICANN delete the domain names the company holds or will they demand I sell my shares? Will ICANN take away the accreditation? What will happen to the shareholders holding 70% of the shares?

If I buy some shares in public traded Marchex Inc. Then I also buy some shares in public traded Verisign Inc . Will all domains belonging to Marchex Inc be deleted? Just because I own a couple of shares in both companies? Will Verisign loose their accreditation?

What if I have some money in a mutual fund and they have invested in Google Inc? They are accredited. Will I not be able to register any domains? If I do, will Google loose their accreditation?
central

Registrars will be able to own all the names they want, they'll just have to bid on them like anyone else - not just taste them and then appropriate the valuable ones without dropping them to the pool.

If you own a registrar, then no, you shouldn't be in the domain name speculation business, registrars have an obvious unfair advantage. That's why there's already language in the RAA talking about speculation and warehousing. Registrars are currently pretending it's not there, so ICANN needs to clarify it and enforce it.

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