Ummm...okay. You've never lost a domain name apparently, nor have you been the victim of a hijacking, nor have you had to beg one or six of a 150 different registrars, all with different policies, to fix a deletion that you are stuck on the wrong end of.
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.
This is all besides the point anyways - if you remember, you were advocating that less competition and more regulation would fix problems like this - with the problem being the exorbitant price that NSI is charging for RGP transactions because of the monopoly that they have with .com and .net.
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.Actually, no. The job of an ISP to is provide a bridge between the packet-based and switched networks - that is until ISPs decided they could provide value outside of their domain of interest and inappropriately bundle these two services...
I've got no incentive to answer those questions. Neulevel has full control over the relevant data and I can't create .corp to create a space in which I could make my proof.First describe some value -- none ever has been.
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.You're mixing apples and oranges beyond comprehension. There are big differences between a registry operator, a TLD, a phone company and a phone directory - not to mention the regulatory regimes and attributes of each market place. You can drag together as many analogies as you want, but you just aren't proving much - nothing that I'm following anyways.
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.Sure hokey fanokey extras like dragging semantic overlays, navigational systems and use charters into the mix. Right.
Gotcha completely. In other words, you're not adverse to paying too much for crappy products from a company that wouldn't know customer service if it stuck them in the eye with a fork.
So your contention is that this space has reached some equilibrium of some sort?
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.
-rwr
