Re: Monopoly/Ologopoly

["Leo Smith" <barter@ntplx.net>]

 Kent Crispin wrote.................. 
: 
: It just seems to me that the goals of the internet are simply not 
: best met by  monopoly registrars.  NSI is a huge entity, by registrar 
: standards.  But they don't have a branch office in indonesia offering 
: registration services in the native envirionment.  With shared 
: registries international dispersal falls out naturally.
: 
Valid point...To achieve the objective outlined above, IAHC should require
that as a condition of the exclusive licensing agreement, each licensee
must agree to sublicense all other CORE members at a specified wholesale
rate. When the registry in Indonesia receives its license, it automatically
receives sublicenses from all existing registries to market all other
gTLDs. As a sublicensee, the Indonesia registry "buys" SLD registrations at
wholesale from the licensee and "sells" the registrations at retail to its
customers. Likewise, if the Indonesia registry has the exclusive license
for a gTDL, other registries may buy the SLD registrations from the
Indonesia registry on a wholesale price level, and then resell the SLD
registrations at a retail price.