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

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 08:38:25AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
[...]
> 
> >Any two-bit book keeper can calculate the cost margins on a going
> >concern. Forecasting costs on a new concern is a finer art. However, to
> >take those cost guestimates and then say that it is a fair
> >representation of the market price is a fallacy. One that amatures
> >(non-professionals) make on a continuous basis.
> 
> Although they are new as a business category, registries and registrars 
> entail marketing, sales, technical and operations aspects that are not.  It 
> is a business that is quite similar to a number of other, well-established 
> lines of business, albeit rather simpler than those other.  As such, 
> determining reasonable business costs isn't all that tough.

It is also true that we have direct evidence.  Both Nominet and the 
German ccTLD run as non-profits, and charge in the $5 range.  These 
are large registries.

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Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain