On Wednesday 23 Aug 2006 12:36, JB wrote: > > > Or holding an auction for a popular name to find it's market price.
I think he meant differential pricing to existing customers, rather than auctioning the domain. It is more a "microsoft.com" (if .com was covered) get a lot of look-ups, we ought to charge them more for their domain name. (Hey I could make a good argument for traffic based pricing I'm sure, and good arguments against....). Of course it would be foolish of a company with such an agreement not to reserve the option to do such a thing, whether it is six months or 10 years into the future. Certainly if the option exists, they should claim the right to exercise it, as not doing so is not in their share holders interest. Even if they decide differential pricing would hurt sales, not having the option must be worse for the organisation concerned. Probably less of an issue for PIR, than others. I'd class TLDs as natural monopolies, and the contracts should be regulated as such. ICANN clearly doesn't feel that way, but still restricts the flow of perfectly sensible TLD applications (no one mention .XXX), both by price and procedure, and edict. I'm also with the school of thought that providing such services is getting cheaper to do, so why are prices going up? Simon _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
