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Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do



This is a very weak response.

Kent Crispin wrote:

> Getting congress/fcc involved is a huge overhead, and, while it might
> happen in the extreme egregious case you mentioned, it is not clear
> that these agencies would be at all effective, or even interested,
> in less dramatic cases.

Congress is already involved and interested. The FCC isinterested.

> NSI could blackmail Songbird into paying
> $135/year instead of the current $35, and with 100,000
> songbird-sized businesses, that would add $10M/year to their
> bottom line.

Uh...no, it couldn't. NSI the registry can only charge you$9/year, and
you are free to switch to any other registrar.
Is this news to you?