Ross Wm. Rader 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.Isn't that what it is?
If a domain is deleted by the registrar before it should be, then the registrar should have to bear the cost.
If it's deleted on time and the registrant has remorse, they should be social-engineered.
I see no reason for there to BE a "simple and effective way to get names back." Stop snoozing.
Providing email? Since always, until registrars decided it was a value-add they could provide outside of their domain of interest, and that could be inappropriately bundled., .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.
First describe some value -- none ever has been.
and not one single TLD operator has done anything remotely innovative in the last five years.The product is a domain. That's pretty simple. Not a mailbox, not a programming staff, not a web site. A domain. When you absorb those into the domain, you clobber vertical flexibility, just like we have done in the phone market. Seventeen long-distance providers hasn't really given us anything except poor service at prices that were initially reduced artifically to kill the competitiors and which went up when consolidation occurred.
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.
...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.
There's no real difference between a TLD and a phone directory. They need to do one thing and do it well, not add hokey-fanokey services that are appropriately provided by other parts of the supply chain.
And that we are seeing TLD competition for the sake of competition, and providers reaching into each other's space because TLDs themselves are mature? Exactly.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.
So your contention is that this space has reached some equilibrium of some sort?
