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

  • To: Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeff Eckhaus <eckhaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] RE: Economists
  • From: Milton L Mueller <mueller@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:02:08 -0400

Eric: 
How many of these names attracting high values were not in .com? 
Hmm, by your own stated examples I see....none were.
.Com has market power. There is no debate about that. 

<Sigh. How many times do I have to point this out?>

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> sex.com went for $14m, fund.com went for pennies under $10m, porn.com
> went for $9.5m, {business and diamonds}.com went for $7.5 each, and
> beer.com went for $7m. AsSeenOnTV.com went for pennies over $5m, and
> {korea, casino and seo}.com went for $5m each.
> 
> The price points for each of these for the random standard 2010 (or
> whenever) application going through sunrise and landrush will be lower
> than for .com, but significantly higher than the price point for any
> remaining strings after the first 100k have been harvested by the
> business entity ICANN selects as the registry operator and which has
> this one-time value extraction permit.
> 




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