Yeah, that's what I was getting at... especially since ICANN says it's a technical oversight thing, not a policymaking thing. I just meant its incest with the VeriSign monopoly, artificially scarce gTLDs, and high barrier to entry into the gTLD process artificially keeps prices high. -s On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:10, eric@hi-tek.com wrote: > Whoa, > Technical needs are not the determination of value of something. > Wait, unless someone is running contrary to Antitrust and Monopoly concepts? > I guess if you get it for free and no one else can have it because of > government intervention, maybe the price should be reflective of actual costs > rather than greed. > (do not get me wrong I appreciate greed) > > Eric > > Stephen Waters wrote: > > > > Stephen Waters <swaters@amicus.com> wrote: > > > > > > p.s., Honestly, I can't imagine any technical reason why domains cost > > > more than $5/year -- especially after reading the results of Karl > > > Auerbach's tests for millions of TLDs under BIND. DNS is just fucked. > > > > This is to what I was referring... > > > > http://www.atlargestudy.org/forum_archive/msg01528.shtml > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Name: signature.asc > > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > > Description: This is a digitally signed message part >
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