Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:29 AM 8/26/99 , Christopher Ambler wrote:
> > Since the registry operations cost for domain name registration should be
> > US$ 0.25-0.50 (if not lower) and that leads to a rather lower price than
>we
> > currently suffer with.
>
>No, it shouldn't. They gold plate their bathroom handles, so it should be
>$8 per domain name. And neither your nor I should tell them otherwise,
>it's not our business.

Undue registry control over registrants makes it very MUCH our business.


At 11:35 AM 8/26/99 , Christopher Ambler wrote:
>There is no reason to regulate the cost of the registry when there is the
>open market for anyone to open a registry. In a single-registry system,
>like IAHC had proposed, yes - that would make sense. In a free
>economy, with multiple registries, that is unnecessary regulation.

Again, you are ignoring problems due to lock-in.  Fortunately, NSI has 
provided able evidence that this concern is valid.

>Thankfully, there is no way in hell that it would stand, so feel free
>to discuss it all you want.

Thank you for you insights about the processes that are underway.  We 
should probably assume that the prediction is as accurate as your legal 
predictions...

d/


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