Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 01:06 PM 8/24/99 , Milton Mueller wrote:
>This is a very weak response.

My, what a very unproductive response.  And what followed in your note was 
very muddled.

And gosh, isn't this a productive tone you've introduced!

>Congress is already involved and interested. The FCC isinterested.

The nature and process that they have demonstrated, so far, should make 
clear why they are not a viable path to follow, for worrying about 
excessive registry leverage over locked-in customers.

> > NSI could blackmail Songbird into paying
> > $135/year instead of the current $35, and with 100,000
> > songbird-sized businesses, that would add $10M/year to their
> > bottom line.
>
>Uh...no, it couldn't. NSI the registry can only charge you$9/year, and
>you are free to switch to any other registrar.
>Is this news to you?

Apparently you missed the fact that the $9 is only recent and is the direct 
result of long and painful pressure on NSI.  Even better is that it is 
STILL much too high a price, relative to reasonable costs.

All of this suggests that close oversight and control of registry behavior 
IS in fact necessary.

d/

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