[ga] Profit = Tax (was ITU Resolution 102 -- four years later)

["Ray Fassett" <ray@fassett.org>]

"It is the cost of the domain name."

It is absolutely NOT the cost of the domain name.  It is the price of the
domain name.  The cost is US$6.00.  The profit margin as a result of the
spread between the price and the cost is indeed a tax because the cost is
capped.  Some might call this "tax" artificially inflated.  If I have to
pay $1,000 for a used domain name because there is nothing comparable that
I can buy new, I am being taxed or penalized or whatever one cares to call
it.  This is the status quo that benefits a few rather than the majority
for no DNS technical reason.

"Have they thrown out capitalism over in Europe?"

It's been thrown out in the U.S too.  Otherwise the cost would not be
capped in today's "competitive" DNS landscape.

Ray
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