Do you have a choice not to use Microsoft in todays world?Do you think if Apple
had a 50% market share Microsoft would be able to sell WIN98 for $300.00 or Office2000
for $500.00?
Internal competition is good...it helps R&D, but a monopoly dictates
the price you will pay.....either in dollars or customer service.
Who knows, if
Apple had 50% market share or if there were three or four or five players...the R&D
involved in the industry would be much greater than if one company was making all
or 98% of the money!
My experience with the big hitters in the domain industry
is when they are small they compete with price, customer service, inovation, integrity,
reliability...etc. When they become giants in the industry all those are overshadowed
by profit and how to squash the competition not how to make the service better!
NSI
never had good service...even with the so called competition at the register level,
NSI service is worse than ever. When they were a monopoly they charged me $119.00
per domain name for two years. I dont think IODs $35.00 is unreasonable since NSI,
Register, most CORE members, IDR....."lets say 80% of the registrars" charge $35.00
or more for registration and a two year minimum "Thats $70.00 per domain"
Now that
Verisign owns GreatDomains and Register owns Afternic there is a multi billion dollar
conflict of interest for two of the biggest players of the Afilias cartel......All
generic terms will be held hostage for the aftermarket just like NSI is holding over
a million domains for future auction. You wont have a chance for any good domains
after the sundown period. Don't be fooled.