Re: [wg-c] Schwimmer Post From Last Week

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

> A registry blocks the customers in it, and has an effective
> monopoly of their TLD, which (unfortunately) is not like having a monopoly
> on McDonalds hamburgers or on Ford automobiles, but like having a monopoly
> on hamburgers or on automobiles (hey, I want a hamburger but don't like
the
> company that controls the hamburgers: fine, buy an automobile, because our
> competition says that there are different products out there that you can
> buy).

I don't think so. If you don't like the terms for .biz, buy a .corp or a
.com
or a .shop or a .firm or a .store or...

Again, we're overlooking one fact here - unless you can change the business
model of NSI's registry for .com .net and .org, you cannot mandate that
all new registries must follow a certain model. That is not legal in the
United States (where, it would appear, this is happening for the sake
of the legal issues). As such, this point is moot.

Christopher