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

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Absolutely agree.

But even if we accept the possibility of the 100k rule being exploited as Eric 
suggests, perhaps one solution to counter that would be to mix in some of the 
provisions this group has come up with for single owner single user TLDs...

Stéphane

Le 5 mai 2010 à 05:59, Jeff Eckhaus a écrit :

> 
> 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
>