> Regarding the "Do the math" statement. Have you ever considered that the
> overhead for one businesses location may be much lower than another's?
> The overhead costs for a business, operating over the internet, in India
> for example, will be much less than the overhead in New York or Seattle.
> A business operated from the home will also have lower overhead than one
> paying for prime real estate.
>
> Also, consider the exchange rate. That $1.50 per domain is worth much
> more in may parts of the world than it is in the US.
The costs are the same to be an ICANN accredited registrar no matter where
you are in the world (it is all based on US dollars). You would need to
sell a heck of a lot of domain names to make back the license fees you are
paying to ICANN and Network Solutions.
The one point that the "OpenSRS needs to lower their fees because we
cannot complete with a low-ball ICANN accredited registrar" seem to forget
is just that. You should never expect to be able to compete with a
low-ball ICANN accredited registrar without becoming ICANN accredited yourself.
