Re: The Price Of Admission is Acceptable.

[Jim Dixon <jdd@matthew.uk1.vbc.net>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, andi payn wrote:

> If you had 1000 registrars, I'm sure some of them would be offering
> incredible prices right out of the door. Some of these, of course, would
> disappear because of bad service, problems with financial backing, lack of
> advertising, whatever, but enough would survive that the price that most
> registrars charge would have to come down very quickly to compete. With 12
> registrars, or even 50, this isn't guaranteed to happen.

Yes indeed.  What we want is a world-wide level playing field.  With
a very large number of registrars, say 1000+, you will get low prices
and rapid innovation as people seek to improve their services to 
differentiate themselves from the rest of the mob.  This will be a 
very unpredictable and challenging world to do business in.  

What we are drifting towards is a cartel, with a few registrars who can
manipulate the rules to keep their prices and profits up.  

Why isn't the choice obvious?

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