Re: Tired of Waiting

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

At 11:45 PM 7/14/98 +0200, Robert Shaw wrote:
>Christopher Ambler wrote:
>> 
>> Your assessment is as inaccurate as your basis for the claim. What
>> is the difference between a registry making an honest profit and a
>> registrar making an honest profit? If both provide good service,
>> contractually prohibit gouging and harm to the Internet, where is the
>> harm?
>
>Because this is the Internet public infrastructure and not your personal
>playground to make a fast buck. History has taught us a big lesson.
>.com represents 85% of all gTLD registrations. There is a reason: gTLDs
>are non-portable, quasi-non-interchangeable goods (imagine 'ownership'
>of .inc in a world of 100 million SLD delegations). Therefore, competition 
>between registries (aka gTLDs) is fantasy. So get over it. Become a registrar. 
>Go forth and suffer *real* competition, not pseudo-competition because you 
>have a lock on a gTLD. 

Yeah, thanks anyway Bob, but I'd prefer not to pay 3 - 10 times as much for
a domain registraton fvia this ITU sponsored "protection".

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a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
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