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

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 10:53 AM 8/26/99 , Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> > Since the registry operations cost for domain name registration should be
> > US$ 0.25-0.50 (if not lower) and that leads to a rather lower price than
> > wecurrently suffer with.
>
>If you compare SABRE's travel reservation costs to their revenue, you will
>find that their transaction costs are close to $1.25. I suspect that even
>though NSIs model is somewhat close to this example that their transaction
>costs are much lower due to limited geographic dispersion and comparatively
>low volumes.

Much smaller service and MUCH simpler transactions.

As an example to substantiate a lower number, we should note that CORE's 
database development and operations contractor was quite comfortable 
working in the range I cited.

d/


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