Re: Tired of Waiting

[John Charles Broomfield <jbroom at manta.outremer.com>]

Hi Richard,

> At 12:48 PM 7/16/98 -0400, John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> >Well, if that is the case, and seeing that Chris can sell at $35/yr, with
> >registrar AND registry integrated, why doesn't he divest from the registry
> >part, just stick to the registrar part, and bundle in with CORE. 
> 
> Why doesnt CORE just use IOD instead of emergent?

Well, IOD didn't try to get the contract up for grabs. I don't know when the
contract goes "up for grabs" again, but at that time, IOD could easily try
to get the contract. Of course, they'd have to understand that they don't
*own* ".web" and could be outbidded next time around.

> I suppose the answer is, Chris, like many of us feel
> anybody should be allowed to buy a domain direclty
> without *having* to go through a middleman that does
> nothing except click on a web form anf mark it up
> as a memebr of a club where dollars, not clues, are the
> price of entry.

If that's all that has to be done by the registrar, then why is Chris
gouging (sp?) people for $35? Why is he getting a markup profit of $25 over
his $10 cost for doing NOTHING? Anyone will tell you that a level of profit
like that is something that will get looked at very closely if there's a
monopoly situation (as Chris would like).

Yours, John Broomfield.