Re: [icann-eu] Domain Name Economics

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 14:14 5/06/01 +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:

>       Representing Users' and Domain Name Holders' interests
>
>
> From the above, we can conclude that as long as domain name holders are 
> sort of satisfied by at least some registrars' offers, it's unlikely that 
> the root monopoly of which these registrars are part would break.
>
>Thus, there are close to no market-driven feedback channels for users or 
>domain name holders.  Users and domain name holders are, in particular, 
>normally not among the possibly destructive players I listed above.
>
>
>Thus, they can only exercise influence by allying with destructive 
>players.  Now, let's go over the list of possibly destructive players:
>
>- ISPs.  As long as supporting the monopoly doesn't mean you are   losing 
>customers to competition which doesn't support the   monopoly, there is no 
>incentive to attempt to break it.
>
>- ccTLDs.  Since the more powerful ccTLDs can be assumed to be among   the 
>TLDs which are unlikely to be attacked during a root split,   they are 
>among those players on the market which are most probably   least 
>interested in the monopoly, and possibly most interested 
>in   destabilizing it.


Thank you for your thoughts, Thomas.
 From what is happening after Stockholm now, I guess that you are not alone 
with these conclusions.
It is time for a fresh approach and closer ties of the DN holders' 
organizations with the ccTLD's.


--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
the Cyberspace Association and
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
Elected representative.
http://www.idno.org