RE: [ga] WLS

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>]

Dramatically increase the cost for whom?  Registrars, speculators? or
consumers?

Chuck

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> From: Don Brown [mailto:donbrown_l@inetconcepts.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:03 AM
> To: owner-ga@dnso.org; Joe Sims
> Cc: ga@dnso.org; mcade@att.com; gkirikos@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [ga] WLS
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> 
> The WLS proposal will create monopoly control of the source of supply
> and dramatically increase the unit cost.
> 
> Instead of consumers having a choice between Fords, Chevrolets and
> Plymouths, they'll only be able to buy Volkswagen's at the former
> price of a Cadillac.
> 
> Competition vs. a monopoly.  Fixed pricing vs. a fluid, competitive
> and free market.  Market discriminators and innovation vs. take it or
> leave it.  No consumer choice.
> 
> What, exactly, do you find difficult to comprehend?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 7:30:08 AM, Joe Sims 
> <jsims@JonesDay.com> wrote:
> JS> George Kirikos wrote:
> 
> JS>  
> 
> JS> "The official position of the DNSO Registrars
> JS> community, and the position of many other market 
> participants suggest
> JS> that WLS will have a devastating impact by creating a new monopoly
> JS> service for Verisign, to the detriment of consumers and 
> registrars."
> 
> JS>  
> 
> JS>  
> 
> JS> I have been following the discussions on this subject, 
> and must confess that I still am confused about exactly what 
> this (and the many other similar statements that have 
> appeared from others)
> JS> really mean.  Could someone explain to me precisely how 
> the WLS would harm consumers and/or registrars?  I 
> understand, I think, the point that this would be a new 
> service that provides revenue
> JS> for VeriSign (assuming, of course, that someone actually 
> buys it), and I understand that having more revenue will give 
> VeriSign more resources, and more resources will give it more 
> financial
> JS> ammunition with which to compete with its competitors, 
> including other registrars.  And I understand that, because 
> this reservation service (and only this service, given the 
> fact that there is
> JS> only one .com registry) will be able to offer more 
> certainty than other competing reservation services, it may 
> have a competitive advantage over those competing products, 
> which some people think
> JS> is unfair.  But I get the impression that at least some 
> people believe that there is more to the competitive concern 
> than these point?  If that is right, could someone lay it out 
> for me simply
> JS> and clearly, so that even I can understand it?  Thanks.
> 
> 
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