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>> So what's stopping market forces, as you say, from creating the nicely
>> nested (but still not completely overlapping) competitive set of DNS
>> services? I'd imagine only the market itself so far--which has been known
>> to miss good opportunities in the space, to be sure. ...JZ
>
>The infamous chicken-and-egg.
>
>Consumers have no compelling reason for access to alternative roots since
>there are no compelling properties which can be reached solely through them.
>
>This is why I favor a bottom-up strategy of providing some product or
>service of strong, general value that relies upon access to the alternate
>roots for its operation. This is exactly the path Centraal has taken with
>its RealNames service to accomplish the exact same goal from a competely
>commercial perspective. No one seems to realize that RealNames is well on
>the way to becoming an autonomous, independent alternate name service.
>
>I am unwilling to award Centraal this victory without a fight since to do so
>would only create two slightly differing monopolies in place of the one
>under which we currently labor. I don't think anyone noticed or cared that
>NSI in an investor in Centraal...I wonder why?
>
>--
>Rob Raisch CTO - RivalWorks, Inc. <http://www.rivalworks.com>
>Who do you want to play today?
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