[ga] RE: Further Thoughts on Deleted Names, with some SnapNames stats

[George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

--- "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com> wrote:
> George,
> 
> VeriSign profit is totally irrelevant as to the competitive market.
> Please help me understand what is noncompetitive?  Every registrar
> would
> have equal opportunity to participate or not participate, their
> individual choice.  It is your perogorative to be opposed to VeriSign
> Registry making a profit, but please don't use that as an argument
> related to competitiveness.

I'm not opposed to Verisign registrar making a profit, if it offered a
Drop Service that operated at the registrar level, similar to existing
market participants such as Snapnames, eNom, NameWinner, etc. (I've
sent a list in a prior message). My problem is leveraging the monopoly
power of the registry, to enter a "new business", which puts existing
market participants out of business (surely all existing market
participants would not be able to continue in their business with the
proposed regime, but would be forced to only resell WLS subscriptions,
or exit the business entirely. That's anti-competitive, and removes
opportunities for innovation.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/



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