Re: Tired of Waiting

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>]

"Richard J. Sexton" writes:
> 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?

IOD didn't bid on the contract. Emergent bid on the contract.

> 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.

You are totally mischaracterizing the system.

The central locking database maintained by CORE is just that -- a
database. It is not a business. It isn't set up to take payments, make
payments, handle incoming orders, handle phone support or phone calls,
or any of the other things that would make it a business. It is just
an organization that maintains an Oracle database in a closet. The
registrars are not "middle men". They are doing virtually all of the
actual work.

The only thing the CORE database does is make sure that they don't
step on each other's feet and provide a central source for the DNS
information to be generated from.

Perry