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Tough one indeed.
<div class="">Somebody who buys in bulk tickets for events in order to sell them at a higher price close to the event date is called a “scalper", and according to Italian law is a criminal and can be prosecuted.</div>
<div class="">Somebody who buys domain names in bulk in order to sell them at a higher price is called a "domain investor" and is considered a legitimate business person.</div>
<div class="">Cheers,</div>
<div class="">Roberto</div>
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<div class="">On 08.05.2019, at 03:17, <a href="mailto:h.raiche@internode.on.net" class="">
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<div class="">Absolutely, it is a tough one.<br class="">
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From an Australian perspective, it is an issue we have been grappling with for some time - no easy answers there. My first question - who determines, and how, whether the license to use a name is for speculation or not. Next question - if money is spent
for the right to use a name, with the intent to eventually use the name, and so may be considered 'speculative' - is that okay.<br class="">
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So yes, it really is a tough one - not easy answers from Oz<br class="">
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Holly<br class="">
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<div style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</div>
"Jonathan Zuck" <<a href="mailto:JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org" class="">JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org</a>></div>
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"John Laprise" <<a href="mailto:jlaprise@gmail.com" class="">jlaprise@gmail.com</a>>, "CPWG" <<a href="mailto:cpwg@icann.org" class="">cpwg@icann.org</a>><br class="">
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Tue, 7 May 2019 20:51:11 +0000<br class="">
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Re: [registration-issues-wg] [CPWG] [GTLD-WG] Reflections on registry agreement renewals<br class="">
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Whew! That's a tough one because how do you distinguish what is speculation? Better to just raise prices and bring down the volume, I think.</div>
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<<a href="mailto:jlaprise@gmail.com" class="">jlaprise@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b> Saturday, May 4, 2019 8:50 AM<br class="">
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<b class="">Subject:</b> [GTLD-WG] [CPWG] Reflections on registry agreement renewals</font>
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<div class="">The recent discussion on this topic has made me reflect on the topic more broadly and I'd like to share something provocative I've been pondering.
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<div class="">At the broadest level, domain reselling and all speculation surrounding domain names should be outlawed outright. ICANN doesn't as a rule tell end users how to (not) use their domains. However there is an argument to be made that speculative behaviour
hurts all non-speculative users by increasing pricing.</div>
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John Laprise, Ph.D.</div>
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