Re: [registrars] WLS pricing, revenue, and other issues

["Joyce Lin" <joyce@007names.com>]

> Finally, I wonder, is WLS pre-ordained?
> If so, eNom'll shut-up and sell 'em for $40+$1 and make
> our  0.1 * $1.75M/12 = $14K/month or whatever in revenue
> (assuming eNom gets 10% of the
> wait-list entry market, and the market is 5% of the total
> number of names registered now).

I think your estiamte is well over optimistic. Are you suggesting that there
will be only a few registrars participate in the WLS so that you'd get 10%
of the market shares consistently in the future?  This proposal is a long
term commitment and I can only see the pie is getting smaller for most
participants.

Is this a revolving door Verisign is building?  They have been out there
gobbling up companies and their payments today to Snapname could well be
their revenues tomorrow which we registrars and consumers would be burdened
to pay for.

Joyce