The Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN sent around an email this morning suggesing that at first glance, the registry monthly reports for July, the first month in which ICANN instituted a .20 fee on all domain name registrations in order to cut down on the practice of 'domain tasting' (the registration of domain names for 5 days without a fee), there has been an 84% decrease in domain names deleted after the 5 day grace period.
From here.
I've frequently pondered the similar question of whether we could achieve a socially and environmentally beneficial dramatic reduction in junk snail mail by imposing a quite modest surcharge on bulk rate mail. Every time postage rate increases are proposed, bulk mailers assure us that a few extra cents a piece will kill the industry, but every time that the rate actually go up, the mailings seem to continue unabated, so perhaps not.
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