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

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 02:25 AM 8/25/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

> > Although they are new as a business category, registries and
> > registrars
> > entail marketing, sales, technical and operations aspects
> > that are not.  It
> > is a business that is quite similar to a number of other,
>
>As I said Dave, any two-bit book-keeper can back-track cost data for an
>established business. The fallacy is believing that this should be the
>market price. It is why the idea of price controls died at the Federal
>level.

And as I pointed out, the "charge as much as the market will tolerate" 
guidance doesn't give any guidance.

However, a market with significant competition, or other pressures to lower 
price, will drive toward a reasonable price with reasonable profit.  In 
such cases, there IS a good relationship between costs and price.

While the two-bit bookkeeper might not be sufficient to the task, a first 
year MBA is.

d/

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