> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 9:05 AM
> To: rmeyer@mhsc.com
> Cc: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
> Subject: Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] RE: who tells the quill holder
> what to write?
>
>
> At 07:52 AM 7/9/99 -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> >According to ICANN, you would have to charge $1US per
> domain, as a floor
> >price. I don't see provisions for "free" registries. You
> would have to
> >operate outside of the ICANN scope.
>
> As has been discussed repeatedly, there is a difference between an
> organization's expenses and the price is chooses to charge
> its customers.
As has also been repeatedly explained, you can not operate at a
continuous loss for long. Sooner or later, the landlord must be paid.
> An organization has all sorts of expenses, including
> telephone and office
> rental, etc. None of these are free. The fact that the organization
> chooses to provide a particular service to its customers for
> free does not
> mean that any of that organization's suppliers are obligated
> to alter their
> own fees to the organization.
My point wasn't free registries, that was Walsh's mantra (I think).
Personally, I think that we will all have to pay some "registry"
royalty, in order to have a registry.
> Domain registration requires an administrative hierarchy. ICANN must
> acquire operating funds, so it is charging ITS customers a
> fee. How those customers choose to cover expenses is their business,
not ICANN's.
>
> It's odd how this simple lesson in economics is so completely ignored
> during these discussions.
I think that we are saaying the same thing Dave. Go back and read my
message again.