Re: [gnso-whois-wg] Shifting the Financial Burden

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ross,

Under the current scheme each registrar would become a
monopoly with respect to the REVEAL function. 
Frankly, I'd rather have a single monopoly offering
one price than trying to deal with 895+ registrar
monopolies (all offering essentially the same service
at multiple price points).  

Yes, I know that this would remove the profit-center
from the registrars and shift it to a centralized
WHOIS operator, but as you've reminded us previously,
the registrar interest is primarily focused on  
respecting customer privacy concerns.

If this can be accomplished in a way that won't force
a very large number of entities to spend their cash
re-designing their systems to accomodate the manual
aspects of the REVEAL function, then so much the
better for all concerned.



--- Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Danny Younger wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps we need to think in terms of finally
> > developing a centralized WHOIS that would shift
> the
> > exercise of the REVEAL function to a centralized
> WHOIS
> > operator so that the community would benefit from
> a
> > "single" REVEAL pricing program that would reflect
> the
> > economies of scale possible by way of an offering
> from
> > a single provider of this service.  
> 
> Great idea. We should look into the feasibility of
> centralizing all 
> registrar functions at the same time. I'm sure the
> economies of scale 
> would lead to all sorts of interesting outcomes.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Ross Rader
> Director, Retail Services
> Tucows Inc.
> 
> http://www.domaindirect.com
> t. 416.538.5492
> 



       
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