Re: PAB The Green Paper and competing registries

Dan Busarow (dan@dpcsys.com)
Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:06:45 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Jim Dixon wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Javier SOLA wrote:
> > These might be extreme cases, but in general, companies who have developed
> > a high visibility in the Internet would be forced to pay ANYTHING they were
> > asked in order to keep their domains.

[ ... ]

> A couple of years ago, before Nominet was set up, those wishing to
> register in .UK went through a ridiculous process whereby all names had to

Jim,

You are missing Javier's point. Once a company has made a choice
on which registry (TLD) to use, they are effectively locked into
that TLD. They only have a choice when first establishing their
online presence. Once done, choice disappears.

How many of the companys that went with a .com instead of a co.uk
have dumped the .com now that Nominet is running the registry?

Dan

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