(I do believe that NSI ought to be required to act in some affirmative way
to diminish some of its preferential position vis a vis any new
registrars/registries that may try to arise. I'm not particularly willing
to bet that such a thing would occur, however.)
If you look at the exponential rate of increase of domain name
registrations, it is obvious that dramatic, equal opportunities
exist for all registrars in acquiring new registrants. With
those growth rates, the market share opportunities are in the
future rather than the past.
Indeed, what will be most interesting is comparing the US and
Canadian situations. The CA domain is one of the world's largest,
and undergoing a similar registry-registrar bifurcation that was
specified last September. It might be useful to hear a little
about the implementation and competition progress and compare with
COM, ORG, and NET.
--tony
