Hello Bob's,
Monday, September 25, 2000, 7:53:50 AM, you wrote:
>> Why wouldn't they? They are merely paying themselves. Any "loss" is
>> on paper only. The Registry and NSI-Registrar are both parts of
>> Verisign.
> Sorry, but I have to disagree very strongly. Someone else pointed out that
> the shareholders needn't concern themselves because the 'loss' is only on
> paper between two divisions of the same company.
> This is, of course, nonsense. By tying up the domain and rendering it
> unregisterable, they are preventing it from being paid for - thus depriving
> themselves (were it to be registered through them) of $35.
No, not really. Based on sampling, in all likelihood, NSI would not
receive that $35 fee. Few released domains are reregistered with
NSI based on my sampling.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]