PAB The domain lock-in fallacy

Steve Peterson (stevep-hv@virtation.com)
Fri, 06 Feb 1998 11:58:41 -0600


Here's something I posted on com-priv about the problems of lock-in.

>Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:44:44 -0500
>Reply-To: speterson@virtation.com
>From: Steve Peterson <speterson@virtation.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <com-priv@lists.psi.com>
>
>>>From altavista this afternoon:
>
>Domain Pages indexed Links to domain
>
>microsoft.com 221415 1020621
>nytimes.com 851 69110
>news.com 8582 92219
>yahoo.com 6608870 7678517
>
>Now, image it's January 1, 1999. New-IANA is responsible for running a
>dozen or so root servers. Each registry runs its own DNS.
>
>Now, NSI announces a new pricing proposal. Name registration will now be
>$10/year. Great. But you need to pay 1 cent for each DNS query against
>NSI's server for your domain.
>
>Questions:
>
>1. What options do the above named domains have without breaking all of
>these links?
>
>2. How does the "competition" proposed in the Magaziner draft prevent this
>monopoly pricing from happening?
>
>SP
>
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