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

[James Love]

Some gTLDs have regulated prices.  Others do not, it seems.  What is the
official policy on this?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller at syr.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Re: Mission creep and consumer protection


> Yep, that's one reason why the GTLDs are globally dominant.
>
> >>> "James Love" <love at cptech.org> 02/14/02 05:22PM >>>
> 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>
> To: <love at cptech.org>; <discuss at icann-ncc.org>; <fausett at lextext.com>;
> <weinberg at mail.msen.com>
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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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