RE: Re[2]: [ga] RE: [icann-delete] WLS Input - Greatest Good vs. Benefit s of the Few
William, I don't know how you missed it, but in the attached - a copy of what was posted this morning - we answered your specific questions regarding our customer mix in great detail, pie chart and all. - Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: William X Walsh [mailto:william@wxsoft.info] > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:36 PM > To: Cameron Powell > Cc: ga@dnso.org; icann-delete@total.confusion.net; Registrars@Dnso. Org > Subject: Re[2]: [ga] RE: [icann-delete] WLS Input - Greatest Good vs. > Benefit s of the Few > > Tuesday, Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 6:28:43 PM, Cameron Powell wrote: > > period. See > http://www.snapnames.com/downloads/StateoftheDomainOct2001.pdf. > > Page 20 of the August edition further discusses a distinction between > > speculators who have superior foresight in being the first to register a > > name, versus speculators who have superior access to other customers due > to > > their preferential treatment by registrars -- a state of affairs into > which > > we would invite congressional oversight. > > SO WOULD I! And I would include your company in that leeching group > who are speculators getting preferential treatment by Registrars. > > NO SINGLE COMPANY better fits that description you just gave than your > own. > > > Aside from the obvious fact that we do not disclose information about > our > > customers, it should be clear from the above that customers who acquire > > names through our all-comers-welcome, user-friendly service (including > those > > whose names end up on the Top 100) are not by so doing engaging in > abusive > > speculation. And many of these customers are trademark owners re- > acquiring > > names in which they consider themselves to have intellectual property > > rights. See http://www.snapnames.com/corporate_clients.html. > > Cameron, you've been asked the question time and again, and no one > will give a straight answer. What percentage of your sales are the > result of domain speculators using your service? > > You word things VERY carefully, by using terms that cannot be > quantified, such as "many of these customers" and you carefully avoid > anything that would more accurately describe the real make up of your > customer base. > > You and I both know that the vast bulk of your sales are from > speculators. So I find your comments, and those of your CEO, to be > not only self serving, but down and out right misleading. > > Until you will answer those questions, or until you will start using > quantifiable data in discussing your customer make up, why bother > bringing it up except to try and cloud the issues? > > -- > Best regards, > William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info> > -- > > "There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of > the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer > interprets the truth." > -- Jean Giradoux Greatest Good vs. Benefits of the Few.pdf
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