Rick,
Yes, the statements are true. No interest in Email at registry level. It competes with
our
offerings and profit points. The problem with "pricey" products is that the registrars
make all the money, and we're left with a markup of a couple dollars. We make 100%
or $10 on gTLD's, can't get anywhere near that percentage on the pricey products like
certs and defensive registrations.
New TLD registrars are just too gready.... .com is the most desireable by far... all
the
others are simply imitators and need to be priced accordingly.
No interest in .name, .new or any of those "phoney domains".
Thanks,
Oscar
RocketNet
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On 8/21/2001 at 2:59 PM Rick Baraniuk wrote:
> e.. intellectual property protection is becoming costly for many
>companies...the value of another 'defensive' product would not be high...if
>the product was priced at a premium, it would not be supported by resellers
>I would like to talk more specifically about the 3 ancillary products: SLD
>email forwarding, Defensive Registrations and Namewatch. Does anyone have
>anything else to add regarding these products? Do the above statements
>hold true? Would you support an email product run at the registry level? Would
>you support Defensive registrations if they are expected to be pricey? What
>about NameWatch?
