VeriSign, operators of .COM, .NET, .NAME, and service provider to .EDU, .JOBS, .CC, and .TV, today placed a “Registry Service Request” in to ICANN that proposes that a registrar can swap a .net domain name for another .net domain name, if the request comes from the same registrar.

The premise is that registrars are faced with losses from customer abandonment or other ‘shrinkage’ that leaves them holding a registration through to its annual term, because domain names are billed in a minimum of one year increments.

Within a 365 day calendar, this would conceivably allow, for the price of 1 .net domain, 12 different domains to be reviewed for the inherent traffic that a domain gets.

The challenge for UDRP Complainants is that an infringing domain name can appear or disappear in 30 day windows, so watch for some interesting comments in the registry services commentary, which have already begun.