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RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] Competition authorities
- To: Richard Tindal <richardtindal@xxxxxx>, "Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx" <Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] Competition authorities
- From: Milton L Mueller <mueller@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:06:41 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> Under the CORE, Afilias and PIR proposals, a large domain reseller,
> let's say Yahoo, could become the registry for .WEB and still offer
> .WEB names to consumers. Yahoo would simply become a reseller for
> WEB, buying names from an unaffiliated registrar at a fraction above
> the registry price. This would give Yahoo the effective market
> presence of a registrar, even though they were only a reseller.
Horrors! I mean, horrors???? Why exactly does this matter?
> For example, if the registry price was $6.00 Yahoo could probably buy
> names from an unaffiliated registrar for $6.05. Even though Yahoo
> the reseller paid $6.05 per name, $6.00 of this flowed back to Yahoo
> the registry, and so Yahoo would have the presence of a registrar for
> an incremental cost of only $0.05 per name.
...and?
> The JN2 position is that Yahoo could create the same potential harms as
> a .WEB reseller they could create as a .WEB registrar, hence JN2 seek
What ARE these harms?
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