Re[2]: [wg-c] "Public" resources

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

Saturday, August 07, 1999, 9:22:30 PM, Ross Wm. Rader <ross@ebarn.com> wrote:
> To get down to brass tacks, I am deeply disturbed by the manner in which
> NSI has administered the current gTLDs. Time and time again they have
> demonstrated that they are acting purely in the interests of their firm and
> their shareholders. However, given the current rules they operate under, I
> cannot think of any other firm that would have acted differently. What we
> can do is capitalize on this unique opportunity to ensure that this does
> not happen again.


You are using NSI as a basis for what would happen when there are
competitive registries in competitive TLDs.  This is absolutely faulty
logic to use what has happened with a monopolistic situation with one
company controlling all the gTLDs to allude to what would happen when
different organizations are managing competing TLDs.

There is absolutely no way to draw conclusions on the disadvantages of
commercial competitive registries by using what has happened when one
commercial companies had a monopoly on all gTLDs.

So I will agree with you, lets not let this happen again.  Lets
introduce competitive TLDs and registries, and make sure that this
market is REALLY an open and competitive market, and then the
registries will HAVE to act in a fashion that makes them competitively
attractive to their desired markets.

--
William X. Walsh
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
Email: william@dso.net  Fax:(209) 671-7934


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