>I'd really like to see the registry operated as a regulated monopoly like >the electric company (although perhaps that's a bad analogy as I'm in >California). But in theory, if the registry were only allowed to make a >certain amount of profit, like utilities once were, the profits could be >used to lower prices on other services or do some other public good.
Robert, that is EXACTLY how the registry's contract reads, which is why they are so desparate to get around it with this "new exiting product" because they are beholden to $6 registry fees. >Since that's unlikely to happen, a second option is that the extra >profits go to the registrars, where at least there is competition. >Verisign Registrar could fight it out with OpenSRS and everyone else. >(I'm not saying this idea is perfect, either; just that it's better than >giving all the money to a monopoly, which I think you erroneously thought >I was suggesting.) Again, that is EXACTLY what is evolving now, and also again the very same reason that VeriSign/SnapNames wants to kill all competition. >-- >Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
