Re: The Price Of Admission is Acceptable.

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

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, John Charles Broomfield wrote:

> > > I have a strong feeling (but this is for CORE to decide) that registrars
> > > will be charged on a per-domain basis at prices targetted at cost-recovery.
> > > This *should* mean that they will be charged something between $1-$5 per
> > > domain.
> > Keep in mind that CORE=registrars, so what you are saying is "registrars
> > will charge themselves ..."
> 
> Not too sure what you're getting at here.

Whoever was writing seemed to be assuming that CORE and the registrars
were different entities.  They aren't.  CORE is the set of all 
registrars.
 
>                                          CORE is a non profit organisation
> that has a member from each registrar (or something like that anyway). As a
> non profit organisation it can't make a profit.

Well, there are a lot of different flavors of non-profit organization.
Usually it's not that they can't make a profit; they are non-profit 
because they can't distribute profits back to shareholders.  Any profits
may or may not be taxable depending on exactly how the non-profit is
set up.

> Why would the registrars want to artificially beef up the price that CORE
> will charge them (if that's what you're suggesting) instead of keeping to
> themselves as much as they can? It's also against the interest of those who
> register more names to have CORE overcharge

I am personally aware of one or more organizations in similar circumstances
that are encouraged to keep prices up by certain members.

> In more or less the same way, nominet=uk registrars, but that doesn't stop
> nominet from going as low as it can, does it?

Ask me off-list ;-)  Or ask someone at Nominet.

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