Re: Tired of Waiting

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard at sexton.com>]

At 01:12 PM 7/16/98 -0400, John Charles Broomfield wrote:
>
>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.

A lot of poeple don't think the CORE model is any good.

>> 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).

Below $35, you'll have runs on registries.


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