Re: PAB The Multiple Monopoly Approach

Bob Helfant (bhelfant@globecomm.com)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:20:38 -0500


At 11:28 AM 2/27/98 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>the pen to change. If Amazon.com is forced out of .com because of
>some policy change by NSI it will cost them hundreds of thousands of
>dollars. This extra expense has no relationship to the $50 it might
>cost them to register in .shop, for example.

How many times have companies had to change TLDs because of NSI policy
changes. This sounds like a "sky is falling" scenario. On the other hand,
GlobeComm changed TLDs about 8 months ago and did not have to spend
hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was more like zero dollars.

Bob Helfant

Bob