Re: Verisign on Process

["Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () gettcomm com>]

At 2:51 PM -0400 10/8/03, Dean Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>
> >  >VeriSign's vice president for its registry service. Citing concerns
> >  >of proprietary information and competitive advantage, he added that
> >  >he didn't think he could guarantee any advance notice of similar
> >  >changes in the future.
> >
> >
> >  Gomes' position truly bothers me if a registry, given that it meets
> >  the formal definition of a technical monopoly, is planning around
> >  competitive advantage.
>
> This is incorrect. Verisign is not a monopoly. There are many registrars
> of .net and .com domain names which compete with Verisign.
>
>                 --Dean

It is not a monopoly in its regiSTRAR function.

It is a monopoly as regiSTRY of .net and .com. It couldn't have 
inserted the wildcards if it wasn't. Having control of the TLD 
servers makes you a monopoly for that TLD.