Posts Tagged ‘tiered domains’
May 27th, 2009 | 
Author: There has been a new patent awarded to DemandMedia for “Method for domain name registration and a corresponding apparatus”. The patent goes on to explain how the whole system will work. Its pretty solid and i can see this whole system working to an advantage to everyone from the taster to the casual domainer or even web developer.
Demand Media
Tier 1 - a standard domain registration as it exists today. You have full control of the domain and full rights until expiration. This would be charged full price by the registry, say $7.00.
Tier 2 - you’d have rights to the domain name unless someone comes along and offers to register it under tier 1. You may have full rights to control the domain, or you may be limited to making certain changes such as DNS. You would pay a lower amount to the registry, such as $4.00.
Tier 3 - similar to tier 2, but with fewer rights. For example, someone may come along and register the domain at tier 2 or tier 1 and you would no longer have rights to the domain. This tier would cost less, perhaps $2.00 per year.
This is just a typical scenario of how the system can work. How this is explained is something that i could potentially get excited about. Register some domains for say $4 and then is i like them or have future plans for them step it up to the full registration or simply register domain names you are on the fence for.
