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[registrars] [Fwd: motley fool quote]




The following appeared in Motley Fool today
http://www.fool.com

You've seen stories like this before, and you
will see stories like this forever if the agreement
is approved:

-- By allowing five new companies to compete in the registrar business,
-- including Register.com and America Online (NYSE: AOL), the move was
-- supposed to level the playing field.
-- 
-- Somewhat, that is. The companies still have to pay Network Solutions
-- $6 a year to maintain the master database. While that's a fraction of
-- the $70 for two years that Network Solutions charges -- and it
-- opened up the realm of discounted domain registration sites to as low
-- as $9.99 a year -- it had little impact on the volume of Network
-- Solutions' business. By the end of the year, it still commanded just
-- over 70% of all new registrations.

Notice how it says "the companies still have to
pay Network Solutions $6 a year to maintain the master
database"

Either way we will have to pay $6
per name.

But if the agreement isn't approved the
stories won't mention a company that
our customers can go directly to to purchase
a domain name.

(Seems the 70% figure is a little out of date.)

Larry Erlich

http://www.DomainRegistry.com

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