Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] RE: Economists

[Jeff Eckhaus <eckhaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

That is an interesting point , but think that Afilias, Neustar, Verisign and 
other existing registries may not agree with you that all the value is 
extracted after the first 100,000 domain names and there is no ROI. They seem 
to have a pretty good business model and are going strong after selling their 
first 100,000 names.



----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Jeff Eckhaus
Cc: Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx <Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue May 04 17:57:38 2010
Subject: Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] RE: Economists

Jeff,

My view is unchanged since Jon unveiled his, now your, proposal at the
December 2008 WDC consultancy.

This is a lovely way to get the value out of the first 100,000
strings, which might mean all one, two, three and four character
strings, and another 50,000 generic terms, starting with "sex".

In fact, after executing such an exploit, there really isn't an
equivalent ROI for continuing the operation of the string farm after
harvesting the highest value 100,000 strings.

Equal access at the six dollar price point isn't quite the same thing
as equal access at the six figure price point.

Eric