Re: Tired of Waiting

[stef@nma.com]

Be very careful about "perpetual care" pricing.  ANSI adpted it for X.400
ADMD and X.500 Distinguished Names, and came to a price od $2000.

The problem is that perpetual care requires that the initial (only) fee
must b large enough to endow care and feeding of the administrative
requirements for ever, hence the fee must yield a large enough capital
investment to provide for perpetual care.

I call this "Cemetary Plot Economics"...  
I think you do not really want to go there.

A reasonable contractual guarantee of price levels should suffice.

Cheers...\Stef

At 10:02 14/7/98 -0700, Christopher Ambler wrote:
>>If their contact includes terms that guarantee *future* prices, then you'd
>>have a cause of action. If not, you're probably out of luck.
>
>
>As I've said, Image Online Design has been advocating this for over a
>year now, but the "non-profit-only" proponents seem to want to ignore it.
>
>How about another possibility: a registry charges a SINGLE ONE-TIME
>FEE for registration, with NO YEARLY RENEWALS. Updates to the
>domain are charged a flat $5 per change, and this, too, is contractually
>locked. You now have a FLAT RATE WITH NO POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE.
>
>You now have TWO solutions to this problem.
>
>As I've said, there is no economic reason to mandate an absence of
>profitable registries. None.
>--
>Christopher Ambler
>Personal Opinion Only