A 'Reasonable' Explanation? - From Lextext.com
A 'Reasonable' Explanation?:
All the news of the day continues to be about NSI's front running-domain tasting service. Yesterday, I said the explanation didn't hold water. A second explanation from NSI (on the GNSO's General Assembly mailing list) starts to sound more reasonable. NSI claims that gTLD registries ("or ISPs") are selling registrar lookup data to third-party domain tasters, who then taste a domain before the customer can register it. If true, that's a real concern that needs to be addressed. I'm not sure NSI has hit on the right solution because this "solution" has the potential to cause just as much consumer confusion as the practice the company is trying to prevent.
If a registry leak is causing front-running, however, it's a hole that needs to be patched, preferably by ICANN.