RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] Single Registrant TLDs in VIWG Brussels report

[Milton L Mueller <mueller@xxxxxxx>]

If regulators cap the wholesale price at $6 per name and then impose technical 
standards and contractual regulations on a registry that allows those $6 names 
to be sold by 100+ competing retailers, wel,, heck yes, the market will bid 
away the monopoly prices and the retail price falls to somewhere closer to $6 + 
margin. You have a textbook commodity market. That's the .com story. 

We are not talking about .com anymore. (Is that clear to everyone yet? ;-)

We are talking about new names and new registries, none of which will have the 
legacy monopoly .com had, and many of which will need new business models in 
order to establish themselves and survive in a market already dominated by .com 
and .com resellers. 

--MM

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>Prior to the separation of the ry/rr functions domain name registration
>was $35/yr with a minimum two years required up front (probably higher
>before that, I don't recall). Within less than 2 years after, you could
>register domains at several registrars for less than $20/yr and as low
>as $8.95, nearly 75% cheaper. And that was before the introduction of
>any new gTLDs.