Re: PAB The Green Paper and competing registries

From: Kent Crispin (kent@songbird.com)
Date: Tue Feb 24 1998 - 06:59:18 PST


On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 09:08:00AM +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:
[...]

> The only thing that I recall having said about "smaller" gTLDs is
>
> * monopoly gTLDs are probably acceptable where the number of
> probably registrants is too small to make running a shared
> registry economically viable

The CORE SRS is designed to handle any number of TLDs; the incremental
cost of adding a TLD is zero; the incremental cost of running a
registry for a very lightly used TLD is zero. Therefore, there is no
such case as you describe -- for *any* new TLD, regardless of the number
of probable registrants, it will be cheaper to run it in the SRS than it
would be to create a tiny new monopoly registry.

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