Believe or not, people actually want rules. Most of the free-market project fail because there is often not much more than a concept. To actually make HavenCo work, Sealand needs a commercial code, a company act, a telecommunication act, etc. In this way, 'real' businesses could evaluate the hosting offers and HavenCo would have been more likely to succeed.
But the utter lack of rules, together with monopolistic practices of HeavenCo themselves, interference of unchecked Royals (rules tend to protect the populace from each other AND from the government, to some extent), and questionable infrastructure made the foundation of the whole project somewhat 'floating'. HavenCo is just learning the lesson that datacenters should not retail and retailers should not backstab their wholesaling datacenter. Instead of going specifically after customers with questionable sites and motives, they should have priced their services to allow hosting ventures to set up shop there - and then NOT compete with them. Alas, it's the old story that idealistic enthusiasm never beats a proper business plan and outstanding customer service. If one then drops idealism for arrogance and throws in high prices, then one paints himself into the proverbial corner. Cheers, Robert. budget & privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net budget & privacy domain registrations + mail http://www.u2planet.com/cfdomaintrust.html --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
