William and all,
William, you might as well give up on trying to convence Kent
of anything, he is intractable.. BTW, I left two messages on your
Answering service. I thought you wanted to chat about something???
William X. Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 09:50:56 -0700, Kent Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:13:49AM -0700, Christopher Ambler wrote:
> >> > There is a more fundamental problem with the "20 year deals", or any
> >> > similar scheme: a creative monopolist can always find ways to get
> >> > around them. "Oh we are so sorry that our old server is only
> >> > capable of handling 20 hits a minute. You need to upgrade to our
> >> > new, premium plan..." A 20 year contract is a bandaid to cover a
> >> > particular abuse, but we can't possibly think of all possible ways a
> >> > monopolist could exploit their position. You need to deal with the
> >> > root cause, the monopoly.
> >>
> >> Even a non-profit can do this.
> >
> >I'm glad you realize the problem.
> >
> >But of course, with a non-profit the incentive is much, *much* less,
> >especially if it is a community controlled non-profit such as ICANN.
> >With a for-profit the incentive for creative thinking is orders of
> >magnitude greater. And we have all seen just how creative NSI can
> >be...
> >
> >> If it's how you do business, fine. It's not how I do business.
> >
> >In fact, every indication is that you are only in this for the
> >possibility of monopoly profits.
> >
> >And even if both you and I were absolutely pure at heart, I would
> >rather that neither of us had the opportunity to become corrupted.
>
> A registry is no more a monopoly than a car manufacturer is Kent.
>
> Provided there are no artificial limits placed on the number of
> registries and the models underwhich they operate.
>
> --
> William X. Walsh
> General Manager, DSo Internet Services
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:(209) 671-7934
>
> "The fact is that domain names are new and have unique
> characteristics, and their status under the law is not yet clear."
> --Kent Crispin (June 29th, 1999)
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