Re: Tired of Waiting

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard@sexton.com>]

At 05:21 PM 7/14/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>"Richard J. Sexton" writes:
>> Perry, Chris want's to sell names directly to the public. His prices
>> posetd on the webtld.com website are $35/yr with discounts for multiple
>> years. Chris has agreed to stipulate or contactually agree to 
>> a long term increase shcedule.
>
>The issue is not only one of price. If Chris turns into a flake, his
>customers have no way to switch to another provider. Furthermore, we
>would expect that with time, prices should drop, not remain stable.

Chris has little to be a flake about. You register the domain via a web
form. You make updates to it via a web form, there are half a dozen
nameservers or so for that TLD.

If Chris is a flake, he doesnt get paid. I would consider that to
be incentive.

Sure the prices *should* drop, I'll go you one further and say
they should be free. But, there appears to be enough of a consensus
that there should be a minimum price of $35/yr to encourage garabge
collection of unused names and to discourage runs on registries.

Unless you have a more sound way of fixing those problems, of course.

>> On the other hand, the CORE registrars that would *like* to sell
>> IAHC's version of .web charge, on average $75 to $100/yr as
>> middlemen.
>
>I have no evidence that supports your claim. I also suspect that
>competition in the area would drive prices down to a small rate of
>return over cost.

Try looking at a few CORE registrars, Perry. Let me know if you
find one thats $35.

Also consider that some poeple may prefer paying less and living with
poor service as opposed to paying CORE prices and getting their
hand held. 
--
The most important thing in the programming language is the name.  A
language will not succeed without a good name.  I have recently invented
a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
     -- D. E. Knuth, 1967