Sounds fine to me. The only wrinkle is that T<>0. amazon.com already
*has* amazon.com. brand interests are already vested. Can you imagine if
1-800-FLOWERS were told, "Gee, sorry, you have to pay us "800 registry"
people $50,000 renewal this year"? It would be small solace that they
could move to 1-877-FLOWERS instead, where the 877 registry people do
twenty year deals. I still wonder why the names should be in perpetuity,
anyway--buy instead of lease, perhaps only subject to actual continuing use.
At 02:27 AM 7/9/99 , Chris Ambler wrote:
> > amazon.com wouldn't be satisfied moving to amazon.biz if, once their lease
> > was up on amazon.com, they were told it'd be $50,000 to renew it! And it
> > would cause an uproar among some of the trademark interests. ...JZ
>
>Old argument. Amazon negotiates a capped price increase schedule
>before buying - something not available in a .com. Or they pay in advance
>for 20 years of service (at $25 per year, a paltry sum) and forget the
>issue.
>
>IOD, for example, would be pleased to do either.
>
>Christopher
