For years now, companies like Iperdome and
IO Design have been calling for competition
in the name space. Not fake competition, at
the "registrar" level, but real competition,
at the "registry" level.
Instead, many have attempted to devolve NSI's
monopoly through rules, regulations, and all
sorts of other machinations. Now, people
are complaining about the results.
Competition *will* address these complaints.
How many more years must we wait?
Respectfully,
Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.
404-943-0524 http://www.iperdome.com
At 02:56 PM 3/21/99 , Robert Raisch wrote:
>I call for the immediate re-evaluation of Network Solutions contract and a
>further hastening of the creation of an infrastructure of competitive
>registrars. Each moment we delay in doing so only furthers Network Solutions
>iron grip on the market, causing irreparable damage to competition.
>
>What is most egregous about this recent action is that by bundling further
>services in e-commerce, web, and e-mail hosting, with their existing domain
>name registration services, Network Solutions seeks to leverage its current
>market monopoly position unfairly against those providing the same services
>but lacking government-sanctioned control of the market. This is why
>unchecked monopolies are so dangerous.
>
>Futhermore, Network Solutions seeks to butress its shaky future market
>position by taking acts today contrived to confuse the consumer into believing
>it *is* the Internic. As such, this recent highjacking of the Internic is
>nothing but simple theft, since I - and every other U.S. taxpayer - paid for
>the creation of Internic's brand value, now held hostage.
>
>It is plain to me that we must act quickly to quell this rape of the market.
>If we do not, we sanction Network Solution's further market entrenchment; one
>built so firmly and rigidly into the existing infrastructure as to effectively
>destroy any possibility for real competition.
>
>This is yet another of the dangers I spoke of in 1993, at the 26th IETF
>meeting in Colombus, Ohio, when Internic was formed and Network Solutions was
>handed this power by our government.
>--
>Robert Raisch, Internet Hired Gun <http://www.raisch.com>
>First snow, then silence-This thousand dollar screen-dies so beautifully.
>
