Re: [nc-org] Price discrimination

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>]

Ken:
I don't see how a registrar's customer relations would 
be harmed if all registrars had to do the same thing.
 
But from the customer standpoint, I agree that such 
a policy could disrupt their expectations and lead to
some consternation. Of course, in some ways that's
exactly what we would want it to do: instead of 
ASSUMING that they had to treat all TLDs as the same,
price discrimination would make them think twice.

>>> "Ken Stubbs" <kstubbs@digitel.net> 12/18/01 02:55PM >>>
I dont believe that this proposal makes any real sense. It could easily
create serious "customer relations" problems with the registrar.

The best incentive for conforming registrations is a good "branding"
program. This brings the consumer to the registrar with a more "clearly
defined" buying decision and avoids confusion and the resultant "customer
service" issues

ken stubbs


----- Original Message -----
From: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>
To: <nc-org@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:44 PM
Subject: [nc-org] Price discrimination


>
> One of the more interesting ideas to come out
> of my consultations within NCDNHC might be
> a feasible way to help differentiate the org domain.
>
> It was proposed to price discriminate between
> people who hold the same name in .org as they
> hold in .com, and perhaps also .net.
>
> E.g., if you register a .org name and you also hold
> the identical .com string, the registry charges
> twice as much for the registration. The registrar
> would have to pass that on to customers.
>
> It would NOT be easy to check, but at least
> the check would be completely objective,
> rather than potentially subjective like whether
> an organization is sufficiently "noncommercial."
> I.e., either a matching string is registered by
> the same party in the other domain or it does not.
>
> But even this strikes me as a bit fussy.
> --MM
>
>