Truthfully, this is a historic moment, when normally disengaged Monte makes an emotional comment on a blog regarding Moniker. What I will personally stand behind is that his comments are true. I’m a moniker client, with over 1000 domains with them.. and Monte stands true to his word.
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Oversee has not used moniker and we have not participated in cherry picking domains out from our customers.

CHESTER DOMAINS ring a bell?

Mr. Shwartz, once again your actions are not commensurate with your words. You cry foul at Tucows for warehousing and ask people not to support them while at the same time you patronize companies like directnic who self admittedly are involved in domain warehousing.

You patronize directnic by parking domain names that you own such as divorcee and faking.com with Parked, a subsiduary of directnic which leaves one with the impression that you don’t truly care what businesses are up to, as long as you can make some money off of them.

As Parked is a sponsor of TRAFFIC and as you are able to make $ wth their domain parking platform you are apparently somewhat less inclined to label them as whores and scumbags the way you did Tucows, despite the fact that they are engaged in the same practices.

At the very least Mr. Schwartz this makes you a man of selective vision and at worst a hypocrit whose words can not be trusted.

As was already discussed in this blog:

http://www.thedomains.com/2008/10/24/will-verisign-be-able-to-charge-preimum-prices-for-com/

the new registry draft contracts propose eliminating price controls. Existing registries would be able to copy those into existing contracts, raising the possibility of tiered pricing again.

And what was the “compromise” that was proposed by some last time this battle was fought?

http://www.circleid.com/posts/tiered_variable_pricing_compromise/

Michael Palage, a consultant to Afilias, proposed that the registry operators be able to engage in tiered pricing after a domain expires and gets deleted.

So far, though, few people have even taken the time to comment. The registry operators might not even have to “compromise”, but could do whatever they want! So, take a moment and voice your concerns at:

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-comments-en.htm

Don’t expect all of the registrars to voice opposition, as many of them appear to be positioning themselves to own new gTLDs themselves, and would love to have tiered pricing powers to maximize their profits at the expense of registrants. Only the ones who have large existing .com holdings might have mixed feelings about this — for the rest of them, they’d not have much to lose.

Congrats John!!