A number of comments:
This is one step, not the last or only step.
In the scheme of things, services are starting to matter more than products.
Competition in services is a worthy start.
Esther Dyson
At 11:19 AM 21/04/99 -0500, David Schutt wrote:
>My goodness, a P.T. Barnum for the 21st Century. (suckers and all that)
>
>Anybody that is willing to say with a straight face that piling more sales
>organizations onto the same product represents any kind of competition is
>either deluded or one of the world's greatest con artists.
>
>Talk about newspeak! If you want a regulated distribution channel for a
>single product then say so. Calling this competition is the most outrageous
>abuse of the term that I have ever seen. It has me absolutely disgusted. In
>low moments I believed some people would spout any kind of crap as long as
>it served their purpose. Now I know that to be true.
>
>Damned lies.
>
>And these people are supposed to have some credibility.
>
>D Schutt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>"As the list of post-testbed registrars makes clear, there is a tremendous
>level of commercial interest in opening the market for domain
>name services to competition," said Mike Roberts, ICANN's interim president
>and CEO. "These companies are ready, willing, and able to
>compete. ICANN is committed to working with the United States Government,
>the testbed participants, and all post-testbed registrars to
>launch this program successfully."
>
>
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