[ncdnhc-discuss] Re: Mission creep and consumer protection

[James Love]

Actually, registry prices in many of the ccTLDS are quite a bit higher than
$6.

   Jamie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller at syr.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Re: Mission creep and consumer protection


> One of the things that is truly bizarre about this whole conversation
> is that in the broad scheme of Internet use - which requires
> a computer, Internet access, site hosting, etc. - registry prices are an
> utterly trivial part of the picture. $6/year is 50 cents a month. Cut that
in
> half and you've saved a quarter a month. Big deal.
>
> For poor people or undeveloped countries, the real obstacle
> to Internet access is bandwidth (connectivity), not domain names.
> Not to mention the $1000 or so ($100/month) for the computer
> itself, and the labor required to post and host content.  Bandwidth is
> horrendously expensive in many developing and undeveloped countries,
> and many people don't have telephone lines at all.
>
> As consumer protection issues go, registry prices are pretty far
> down the list at this point.
>
>
>
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