Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
Examples - RGP = $85...
Like I said -- that should be a smack, a fine... do you think we should
have competing traffic enforcement so ticket prices could come down too?
, .name email is overpriced...
But that's an ISP's job anyway.
, whobiz is underthunk and misses what the market wants...
Whatever that is. I can't imagine what value it adds.
and not one single TLD operator has done anything remotely innovative
in the last five years.
...perhaps because TLDs are a stupid place to innovate? There hasn't
been any innovation in the phone directory either, because they do what
they need to do.
Competitive pressure will change this - further regulation will
perpetuate it. Let me know if I need to be more specific with regards
to the behavior of these markets...
Yes, you do. Sometimes a business reaches equilibrium and does all it
needs to in a market, and change for the sake of competition destroys
it. See the changes in the telecom sector since deregulation.
"Competition" has resulted in inferior products from too many suppliers,
excess capacity and horrendous infrastructure overspending that a
regulated market would have prevented, and ultimately a world that's
worse off than we would have been with a single AT&T. And even the
alleged price improvements are melting away the way they do in a free
market once it matures and consolidates.
