Re: An observation

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

Hi,

Speculation aside, I suspect the real reason that .com is valuable is that
it works better than most registries out there ( i.e. ISO TLD registries)
and anyon can get in there with multiple DNS names. They are the fast food
registry of the Internet ( like MacDonalds) Anyone in the world ( nearly)
can eat a Big Mac and anyone in the world ( totally) can register in .com.

That is why it is so popular. From where some of you sit NSI policies and
process and customer service suck. But from here I sit, they are not that
bad. A matter of perspective. .com is the biggest dns place now because it
is easy to get in.

The market made it a brand name, and they sit and chuckle and rack up the
numbers.

Kevin

At 4:24 +0300 31/12/96, Simon Higgs wrote:
>At 4:26 PM -0800 12/30/96, Bryant Durrell wrote:
>
>> Simon Higgs writes:
>> > The first, and most important thing NSI did to develop .COM as a brand
>> > was to place a higher perceived value on each domain than it's annual
>> > fee. They did this by charging $100 for registration. They could have
>> > charged $50.00, and just had each domain renewed every year, but they
>> > didn't. They made the cost of entry a higher value than the per year
>> > cost for each SLD. Anything that costs something has to be worth
>> > something in the eyes of the consumer, or they will never buy into it
>> > in the first place. Since that time the .COM space has been plagued by
>> > name horders and speculators.
>>
>> Huh?
>>
>
>Duh? ;)
>
>> Speaking as someone who used to handle half the new domain
>> registrations at Netcom, I'd say that the horders and speculators were
>> out in force well before NSI started charging.  Clearly the number has
>> increased, but then again, so has the number of spammers and that
>> didn't have anything to do with the .COM fees.  Further, there
>> hasn't been any notable increase in the number of people speculating
>> in .ORG, and that costs too.
>>
>> I think, with all due respect, that your analysis is a bit off.
>>
>
>The growth curve supports this. It's not the only factor, but it is the
>significant one. If the registrations were still free, there wouldn't
>be venture funds being assigned to name speculation, and there would
>not be a need to compete with NSI for registration services, etc. The
>list goes on, but this is the pivotal point in recent domain name
>history.
>
>Why aren't .US and .EDU domains being speculated in the same way?
>
>Regards,
>
>Simon
>
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