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Username:	jweb
Date/Time:	Sun, November 12, 2000 at 2:20 PM GMT
Browser:	Microsoft Internet Explorer V5.5 using Windows 95
Score:	5
Subject:	Inevitable monopoly?
Message:
>>On the other hand, if ICANN selected Neustar, .Web will be jeopardized because NeuStar, Inc can be bought over by NSI/VeriSign. This is also the same for IODesign.<< >It's not so far fetched to believe that consolidation would occur at the registry level with the introduction of new TLDs.< >At least with Afilias, we won't have to worry about the likes of an NSI coming in and buying a new monopoly, since each member can own a maximum of 11% of the company.< A rather fatalistic viewpoint. To save the Internet from an NSI monopoly, there is no choice other than to grant domain registries  to a company partly owned and controlled by NSI? Continuing the theme of wild hypotheticals, what if some party performs a mass buyout of Afilias? You believe if a company can be taken over, it shouldn't be granted the right to run a registry? How many businesses can claim such invincibility? John Webster

Message Thread:

• I like IOD — Terence Chan, November 12 @ 7:11 AM (2/8)
• I have always been saying IODesign was playing fraud — wiredz, November 12 @ 10:59 AM (3/5)
• You idiot, that means Afilias should be granted all new tld's. — first1, November 12 @ 5:01 PM (0/0)
• WiredZ is at it again!! — Gregory W. Krajewski, November 12 @ 1:44 PM (0/0)
• Interesting point — kristopher, November 12 @ 11:28 AM (2/2)
• Inevitable monopoly? — jweb, November 12 @ 2:20 PM (0/0)
• Socialism at work — Gregory W. Krajewski, November 12 @ 2:06 PM (0/0)
• Gunfight At The OKANN Corral — Eliahu, November 12 @ 7:33 AM (1/1)
• Wake Up Call — Terence Chan, November 12 @ 8:37 AM (0/0)

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