Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
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.Hijacking should bear registry (and possibly criminal) penalties. Don't try to fix it with a band-aid.
I've lost several domain names. I admit it was due to my carelessness and that I deserved to.
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.As I said, I don't consider the price exorbitant. We should punish invalid deletions, and make other restorations extremely expensive.
Nope, never was, at least in the days of the commercial Internet. There have been ISPs (differentiated from IAPs) since Barry Shein first brought up The World in 1989.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...
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.
As opposed to REMOVING them from the mix.
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.If "too much" is defined as "more than I'd like to pay"? Yes, of course. I'd like to pay the zero it used to be. But I also don't want to see a world full of Southwests -- providing ever-diminishing levels of management in exchange for price reductions. I don't see any reason domain registrations should drop in price just because more people would buy them then.
