IP: Re:: TheStreet.com: The Bizarro World of Network Solutions

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:22:03 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () brandenburg com>
>
>
> At 12:22 AM 4/23/99 -0400, Dave Farber wrote:
> > > First, Network
> > >                   Solutions will charge the competing registrars a $9 fee
> > > for each
> > >                   domain name that it enters into the registry database.
>
> By contrast, CORE worked out a fee with their software contractor for something like US$ 0.25 per entry.  Now, that is 
> just he data processing fee, and not a fee intended to cover the entire registry operations.
>
> A number of us have separately and repeatedly tried to assess the reasonable cost for a non-profit registry and 
> believe the fee should be US$ 0.50 - 2.00.
>
> Hence, the fee to NSI is around 5 to 9 times higher than it should be.
>
> As usual, NSI has gotten a guarantee of much higher fees that are warranted, and one could argue that that accounts 
> for the favorable stock market reaction.
>
> > >                   Sigmond also breathed a sigh of relief over the $9
> > > registry fee.
> > >                   "Nine dollars was a lot better than some of the
> > > assumptions that
> > >                   other folks were making," says Sigmond. While Network
>
> Exactly.
>
> That's why it is so strange to refer to any of this as creating "competition".
>
> NSI maintains its for-profit monopoly position.
>
> d/
>
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