Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
I don't care so much about what you say it should be as much as I do with regards to what it is - a simple and effective way for registrants to get names back that were inadvertantly deleted for whatever reason. Your implication that this is somehow a "stupid people" tax is pretty obnoxious - and completely besides the point.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.
Since when?
Which somehow means that there should be no incentive whatsoever for some enterprising capitalist to show you what value it might add? (and charge you for it accordingly?), whobiz is underthunk and misses what the market wants...Whatever that is. I can't imagine what value it adds.
We're not talking about phone directories, we're talking about TLD's and the complete lack of incentive that the current stock of operators have to provide me with products I want at a price I want to pay.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.
So your contention is that this space has reached some equilibrium of some sort?
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.
-rwr
